Nuclear IndiaIndia s nuclear tests on May 11 & 13,1998 ended the country s three decade old, self-imposed restraint on its emergence as a nuclear power. India announced that it was now a nuclear weapon state. A new phase in India s security calculus, therefore, has begun. This volume attempts to explore and explain the whole range of issues related to Nuclearisation, in order to extrapolate logical policy positions that the country would need to evolve at various levels. |
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Contents
Introduction | 5 |
Five Decades of Nuclear | 54 |
The Struggle for Nuclear | 75 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Nuclear India |
| Authors | Jasjit Singh, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses |
| Editor | Jasjit Singh |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Knowledge World, 1998 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Aug 11, 2009 |
| ISBN | 8186019111, 9788186019115 |
| Length | 324 pages |
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