India's Nuclear Bomb : The Impact on Global Proliferation

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India's Nuclear Bomb : The Impact on Global Proliferation

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 654 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780520232105
  • DDC分類 355.8251190954

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1999. Updated with a New Afterword. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book 2000.

Full Description

In May 1998, India shocked the world - and many of its own citizens - by detonating five nuclear weapons in the Rajasthan desert. Why did India bid for nuclear weapon status at a time when 149 nations had signed a ban on nuclear testing? What drove India's new Hindu nationalist government to depart from decades of nuclear restraint, a control that no other nation with similar capacities had displayed? How has U.S. nonproliferation policy affected India's decision making? "India's Nuclear Bomb" is the definitive, comprehensive history of how the world's largest democracy, has grappled with the twin desires to have and to renounce the bomb. Each chapter contains significant historical revelations drawn from scores of interviews with India's key scientists, military leaders, diplomats and politicians, and from declassified U.S. government documents and interviews with U.S. officials. Perkovich teases out the cultural and ethical concerns and vestiges of colonialism that underlie India's seemingly paradoxical stance.
India's nuclear history challenges leading theories of why nations pursue and hang onto nuclear weapons, raising important questions for international relations theory and security studies. So, too, the blasts in Rajasthan have shaken the foundations of the international nonproliferation system. With the end of the Cold War and an even more chaotic international scene, Perkovich's analysis of an alternative model is timely, sobering, and vital.

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

ONE
Developing the Technological Base for the Nuclear Option
1948-1963

TWO
The First Compromise Shift toward a "Peaceful Nuclear Explosive"
1964

THREE
The Search for Help Abroad and the Emergence of Nonproliferation
DECEMBER 1964-AUGUST 1965

FOUR
War and Leadership Transitions at Home
AUGUST 1965-MAY 1966

FIVE
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and Secretly Renewed Work on a Nuclear Explosive
1966-1968

SIX
Political Tumult and Inattention to the Nuclear Program
1969-1971

SEVEN
India Explodes a "Peaceful" Nuclear Device
1971- 1974

EIGHT
The Nuclear Program Stalls
1975-1980

NINE
More Robust Nuclear Policy Is Considered
1980-1984

TEN
Nuclear Capabilities Grow and Policy Ambivalence Remains
NOVEMBER 1984-DECEMBER1987

ELEVEN
The Nuclear Threat Grows Amid Political Uncertainty
1988-1990

TWELVE
American Nonproliferation Initiatives Flounder
1991- 1994

THIRTEEN
India Verges on Nuclear Tests
1995-MAY 1996

FOURTEEN
India Rejects the CTBT
JUNE 1996-DECEMBER 1997

FIFTEEN
The Bombs That Roared
1998

Conclusion:
Exploded illusions of the Nuclear Age

Afterword:
January 1999-January 2001

APPENDIX
India's Nuclear Infrastructure

NOTES
INDEX