India S Nuclear Policy

Author : Harsh V. Pant,Yogesh Joshi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199093830

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Indian Nuclear Policy by Harsh V. Pant,Yogesh Joshi Pdf

India has come a long way from being a nuclear pariah to a de facto member of the nuclear club. The transition in its nuclear identity has been accompanied by its transformation into a major economic power and underlines a pragmatic turn in its foreign-policy thinking. This book provides a historical narrative of the evolution of India’s nuclear policy since 1947, as the country continues its pursuit for complete integration into the global nuclear order. Situating India’s nuclear behaviour in this context, the book explains how India’s engagement with the atom is unique in international nuclear history and politics. Aided by declassified archival documents and oral history interviews, it focuses on how status, security, domestic politics, and the role of individuals have played a key role in defining and shaping India’s nuclear trajectory, policy choices, and their consequences.

Author : Bharat Karnad
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780275999469

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India's Nuclear Policy by Bharat Karnad Pdf

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.

Author : Mohammed Badrul Alam
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : India
ISBN : 8170990793

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India's Nuclear Policy by Mohammed Badrul Alam Pdf

Author : George Perkovich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0520232100

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India's Nuclear Bomb by George Perkovich Pdf

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.

Author : V. N. Khanna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049681177

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India's Nuclear Doctrine by V. N. Khanna Pdf

At A Time When The World Is Rife With Speculation About India S Nuclear Programme, India S Nuclear Doctrine Presents An Informed And Lucid Account Of The Country S Nuclear Policy Since 1948, Through Pokharan I And Pokharan Ii.The Author Argues Effectively That While Remaining Committed To Its Advocacy Of Complete Nuclear Disbarment, India Is Only Too Aware Of Its Need To Maintain Nuclear Deterrence So Long As Weapons Of This Nature Remain With The Other Nuclear Powers. World Peace, However, Is India S Priority And The Author Makes A Dynamic Case For The Claim That He Weapons Of Nuclear India Are No Threat To International Peace And Security.

Author : George Perkovich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0520232100

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India's Nuclear Bomb by George Perkovich Pdf

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.

Author : Shrikant Paranjpe
Publisher : Radiant Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015041651806

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Parliament and the Making of Indian Foreign Policy by Shrikant Paranjpe Pdf

Author : Ashley J. Tellis
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Deterrence (Strategy).
ISBN : 0833027816

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India's Emerging Nuclear Posture by Ashley J. Tellis Pdf

"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.

Author : Priyanjali Malik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317809838

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India's Nuclear Debate by Priyanjali Malik Pdf

Making the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party’s nuclear tests in 1998 its starting point, this book examines how opinion amongst India’s ‘attentive’ public shifted from supporting nuclear abstinence to accepting — and even feeling a need for — a more assertive policy, by examining the complexities of the debate in India on nuclear policy in the 1990s. The study seeks to account for the shift in opinion by looking at the parallel processes of how nuclear policy became an important part of the public discourse in India, and what it came to symbolise for the country’s intelligentsia during this decade. It argues that the pressure on New Delhi in the early 1990s to fall in line with the non-proliferation regime, magnified by India’s declining global influence at the time, caused the issue to cease being one of defence, making it a focus of nationalist pride instead. The country’s nuclear programme thus emerged as a test of its ability to withstand external compulsions, guaranteeing not so much the sanctity of its borders as a certain political idea of it — that of a modern, scientific and, most importantly, ‘sovereign’ state able to defend its policies and set its goals.

Author : Varigonda Kesava Chandra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : Antinuclear movement
ISBN : 0367607557

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Society, Resistance and Civil Nuclear Policy in India by Varigonda Kesava Chandra Pdf

This book explores how anti-nuclear social movements impact the state's civil nuclear policy and its implementation by presenting a historical-comparative case study of anti-nuclear movements in India. Drawing on social movement theory and empirical methods, the book demonstrates that the ability for anti-nuclear movements to impede the inception of nuclear plants - a key element of India's civil nuclear policy - is determined by the movement's collective action repertoires, the politicisation of nuclear power and the state's larger developmental paradigm, and the openness of state input structures. The case studies of anti-nuclear movements in Haripur, Kudankulam and Kovvada demonstrate how the implementation of civil nuclear policy is also determined by the state's technical and financial capacity and effective international collaboration. With a focus on theorisation of social movements and their impact, combined with empirical studies of anti-nuclear movements, as well as the historical trajectory of civil nuclear development, the book adds a new prism to the study of India's civil nuclear policy and anti-nuclear opposition. It will be of interest to researchers working on social movements, state-society relations, energy studies and civil nuclear energy in the context of South Asia and the Global South.

Author : Karsten Frey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134144945

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India's Nuclear Bomb and National Security by Karsten Frey Pdf

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.

Author : Lora Saalman
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780870033049

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The China-India Nuclear Crossroads by Lora Saalman Pdf

Global power is shifting to Asia. The U.S. military is embarking on an American "pivot" to the Indo-Pacific region, and the bulk of global arms spending is directed toward Asian theaters. India and Pakistan are thought to be building up their nuclear arsenals while questions persist about China's potential to "sprint to parity." China remains by far the world's largest market for new nuclear energy production, and India aspires to be on a similar trajectory. Despite these trends, The China-India Nuclear Crossroads is the first serious book by leading Chinese and Indian experts to examine the political, military, and technical factors that affect Sino-Indian nuclear relations. In this book, editor and translator Lora Saalman presents a comprehensive framework through which China and India can pursue enhanced cooperation and minimize the unintended consequences of their security dilemmas.

Author : Bhabani Sen Gupta,Cāṇakya Sena
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015009051817

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Nuclear Weapons? by Bhabani Sen Gupta,Cāṇakya Sena Pdf

This is the first book to consider and spell out nuclear policy options for India. As a major contribution to the literature on nuclear proliferation, this pioneering and thought provoking work outlines the policy dilemmas and options with regard to nuclear weapons available to a country like India. Professor Sen Gupta outlines the options open to India as well as the external pressures on India to go nuclear -- the result is essential reading for anyone interested in the study of nuclear weapons, and policy makers in general. '...his incisive analysis of this subject of great misunderstanding is in itself an achievement of the first order. Anyone willing to examine the subject in depth will undoubtedly find this book invaluable.' -- Amrita Bazar Patrika, April 1984 'The book is factual, lucid and comprehensive...It is a book that outlines clearly the nuclear weapons policy options for India, which from the outset were its claims.' -- Teaching Politics, Vol 8 No3/4 '...coming as it does almost exactly a decade after India's first, and until now only nuclear explosion (1974), the volume constitutes a timely contribution to contemporary thinking on India's nuclear weapons policy...what this volume does bring out is the complexity and diversity of contemporary Indian thinking on the nuclear problem as it relates to the South Asian region.' -- Arms Control May 1984

Author : Sebastian Erckel
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640327362

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India's Nuclear Policy by Sebastian Erckel Pdf

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: South Asia, grade: 80%= good, University of Kerala (Department of Political Science), course: India's Foreign Policy, language: English, abstract: This essay presents an outline of the evolution of India's Nuclear Policy with a special reference to the India- US Nuclear Deal. However, more recent developments such as the passing of the Deal, withdrawal of Left support and the vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha are not included. On April 8th 2008 The Hindu published an article titled "Potential consequences of a regional nuclear conflict" in which the author convincingly illustrates the dangers a nuclear- armed South Asia presents.1 The fact that both India and Pakistan, but of course also China, possess nuclear weapons has been an alarming reality since 1998. The relative progress that has been achieved in India- Pakistan relations should not lead one to forget that two conflicts in 1999 and 2001 could easily have escalated into a nuclear confrontation. India had embarked upon a civilian nuclear program right after her independence but the "weapon option" has always been present. India's nuclear policy has been an evolutionary, sometimes painful process equally shaped by domestic and international factors. This paper attempts to analyse some of these factors and argues that the development of nuclear weapons was a logical, albeit not planned, consequence of them. It is interesting that even those in India fiercely opposed to nuclear weapons subconsciously seemed to have realised that India's nuclear program could not be limited to civilian application forever. A constant in India's nuclear policy is the strong wish to become and remain as independent as possible. For this independent nuclear policy India had to pay a high price. Isolated from international nuclear cooperation, confronted with sharp criticism and even sanctions, India had to rely on herself. While India's success has

Author : Prashant Agarwal
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : India
ISBN : 8172110758

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India's Nuclear Development Plans and Policies by Prashant Agarwal Pdf

An attempt to go into both the policy and programme aspects of Indias nuclear development and factors influencing them. Examines of the various national choices of nuclear policies involving consideration of diverse and often mutually conflicting objectives. It also analyses the growth and development of institutional infrastructure for the development of nuclear energy in India and also deals in some details nuclear technology development for peaceful purposes and economics of nuclear technology for power production in the context of energy crisis. Finally it analyses the responses of the successive Indian governments to various international pressures on nuclear issues. An attempt is made to perceive the potentialities of the nuclear policy with regard to economic growth and its implications for the international security system.