Ploughshares and Swords India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War

Jayita Sarkar, "Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War"
English | ISBN: 1501764403 | 2022 | 300 pages | PDF | 10 MB
India’s nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India’s nuclear program during its first forty years. The book foregrounds the program’s civilian and military features by probing its close relationship with the space program. Through nuclear and space technologies, India’s leaders served the technopolitical aims of economic modernity and the geopolitical goals of deterring adversaries.