India's Nuclear Bomb and National Security
Title | India's Nuclear Bomb and National Security PDF eBook |
Author | Karsten Frey |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2007-01-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134144946 |
Karsten Frey gives an analytic account of the dynamics of India's nuclear build up, putting forward a new comprehensive model which goes beyond the classic strategic model of accepting motives of arming behaviour, and incorporates the dynamics in India's nuclear programme.
India's Nuclear Bomb and National Security
Title | India's Nuclear Bomb and National Security PDF eBook |
Author | Karsten Frey |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2007-01-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1134144938 |
India’s Nuclear Bomb and National Security gives an analytic account of the dynamics of India's nuclear build up. It puts forward a new comprehensive model, which goes beyond the classic strategic model of accepting motives of arming behaviour, and incorporates the dynamics in India’s nuclear programme. The core argument of the book surrounds the question about India's security considerations and their impact on India's nuclear policy development. Karsten Frey explores this analytic model by including explanatory variables on the unit-level, where interests are generally related to symbolic, less strategic values attributed to nuclear weapons. These play a significant role within India's domestic political party competition and among certain pressure groups. They also impacted India's relationship with other countries on non-proliferation matters, for example the concept of the country's 'status' and 'prestige'. Identifying the role of the strategic elite in determining India's nuclear course, this book also argues that one of the pivotal driving forces behind India's quest for the nuclear bomb is India's struggle for international recognition and the strong, often obsessive sensitivities of India's elite regarding 'acts of discrimination' or 'ignorance' by the West towards India.
India's Nuclear Bomb
Title | India's Nuclear Bomb PDF eBook |
Author | George Perkovich |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 676 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520232105 |
Publisher Fact Sheet The definitive history of India's long flirtation with nuclear capability, culminating in the nuclear tests that surprised the world in May 1998.
India's Nuclear Bomb
Title | India's Nuclear Bomb PDF eBook |
Author | George Perkovich |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520232105 |
Publisher Fact Sheet The definitive history of India's long flirtation with nuclear capability, culminating in the nuclear tests that surprised the world in May 1998.
India's Emerging Nuclear Posture
Title | India's Emerging Nuclear Posture PDF eBook |
Author | Ashley J. Tellis |
Publisher | Rand Corporation |
Pages | 928 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Deterrence (Strategy). |
ISBN | 9780833027818 |
"This book brings together the many pieces of India's nuclear puzzle and the ramifications for South Asia. The author examines the choices facing India from New Delhi's point of view in order to discern which future courses of action appear most appealing to Indian security managers. He details how such choices, if acted upon, would affect U.S. strategic interests, India's neighbors, and the world."--BOOK JACKET.
India's Nuclear Policy
Title | India's Nuclear Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Bharat Karnad |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2008-10-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0275999467 |
This book examines the Indian nuclear policy, doctrine, strategy and posture, clarifying the elastic concept of credible minimum deterrence at the center of the country's approach to nuclear security. This concept, Karnad demonstrates, permits the Indian nuclear forces to be beefed up, size and quality-wise, and to acquire strategic reach and clout, even as the qualifier minimum suggests an overarching concern for moderation and economical use of resources, and strengthens India's claims to be a responsible nuclear weapon state. Based on interviews with Indian political leaders, nuclear scientists, and military and civilian nuclear policy planners, it provides unique insights into the workings of India's nuclear decision-making and deterrence system. Moreover, by juxtaposing the Indian nuclear policy and thinking against the theories of nuclear war and strategic deterrence, nuclear escalation, and nuclear coercion, offers a strong theoretical grounding for the Indian approach to nuclear war and peace, nuclear deterrence and escalation, nonproliferation and disarmament, and to limited war in a nuclearized environment. It refutes the alarmist notions about a nuclear flashpoint in South Asia, etc. which derive from stereotyped analysis of India-Pakistan wars, and examines India's likely conflict scenarios involving China and, minorly, Pakistan.
The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb
Title | The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb PDF eBook |
Author | Itty Abraham |
Publisher | Zed Books |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1998-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781856496308 |
In 1974 India exploded an atomic device. In May 1998 the new BJP Government exploded several more, encountering in the process domestic plaudits but international condemnation and a nuclear arms race in South Asia. This book is the first serious historical account of the development of nuclear power in India and of how the bomb came to be made. The author questions orthodox interpretations implying that it was a product of the Indo-Pakistani conflict. Instead, he suggests that the explosions had nothing to do with national security as conventionally understood. Instead he demonstrates the linkages that existed between the two apparently separate discourses of national security and national development, and explores their common underlying basis in postcolonial states. The result is a remarkable book that breaks new ground in integrating comparative politics, international relations and cultural studies.