India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation

by George Perkovich

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520232100
• ISBN13: 9780520232105
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 654 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"