Synopses & Reviews
This book provides an important picture of India's nuclear intentions and capabilities at the beginning of the 21st century. Academic and governmental experts from both the United States and India explore the strategic, technological, military and economic dimensions of India's nuclear world. The contributors bring their expertise together in an unusual mix of viewpoints from three continents on the several dimensions of a nuclear India at the turn of the century. It is an important resource in the United States to help policymakers respond to the regional and global proliferation problems that have resulted from India and Pakistan's nuclear tests of 1998. It is an important aid to India in exploring and evaluating its nuclear strategy and the political, economic and military consequences of its nuclear decisions.
Review
"The book will greatly interest scholars and policy makers concerned with nonproliferation..."--S.A. Kochanek, Choice
Synopsis
This collection of essays, unlike other books on this subject, emphasizes strategic, technological, and economic factors. It includes contributions from a combination of academics and governmental experts from both the United States and India. Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century provides an important picture of India's nuclear intentions and capabilities and should facilitate policies that the US may consider in response to regional and global proliferation.
About the Author
D. R. SarDesai is the Navin and Pratima Doshi Professor of Indian History at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Raju G. C. Thomas is the Allis Chalmers Professor of International Affairs at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: GENERAL DIMENSIONS Whither Nuclear India?;
SarDesai & Thomas PART TWO: STRATEGIC DIMENSIONS What Makes the Indian Bomb Tick?;
Perkovich India and the International Security Order;
Subrahmanyam India, the International System and Nuclear Weapons;
Paul India's Thermonuclear Option;
Karnad Why Do States Acquire Nuclear Weapons?;
Hymans The International Dynamics of a Nuclear India;
Varadarajan PART THREE: TECHNOLOGICAL AND MILITARY DIMENSIONS Nuclear Developments in India and Pakistan;
Joeck India's Nuclear Technology Policy and Capabilities;
Raja Ballistic Missiles;
Sheppard Nuclear Weapons and the Indian Armed Forces,
Kadian PART FOUR: ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS The Economics of Nuclearization in South Asia;
Lal U.S. Economic Sanctions and their Impact on India;
Kapur India's Energy Policy and Nuclear Weapons Program;
Thomas PART FIVE: PROLIFERATION LESSONS AND SECURITY PROSPECTS On the 'Lessons' of South Asian Proliferation;
Quester Appendix: India's Nuclear Policy;
Sreenivasan I: General Dimensions * Whither Nuclear India?--Raju Thomas * What Makes the Indian Bomb Tick?--George Perkovich * II: Strategic Dimensions * India and the International Security Order--K. Subrahmanyam * India, the International System and Nuclear Weapons: T.V. Paul * India's Force Planning Imperative: The Thermonuclear Option--Bharat Karnad * Why Do States Acquire Nuclear Weapons? Comparing the Cases of India and France--Jacques E.C. Hymans * The International Dynamics of a Nuclear India--Siddharth Varadarajan * III: Technological and Military Dimensions * India's Nuclear Technology Policy: Capabilities and the Aftermath of Testing--Rajendran Raja * Ballistic Missiles: Underpinning the Nuclear Quagmire--Ben Sheppard * Nuclear Weapons and the Indian Armed Forces" Rajesh Kadian * VI: Economic Dimensions * The Economic Costs and Benefits of Nuclear Weapons--Deepak Lal * The Domestic Consequences of India's Nuclear Tests--Devesh Kapur * The Costs of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia--Peter R. Lavoy * India's Energy Policy and Nuclear Weapons Program--Raju G.C. Thomas * VII: Proliferation Lessons and Security Prospects * On the "Lessons" of South Asian Proliferation--George Quester