Description:
By examining public discussions on India's nuclear policy in the 1990s, this book seeks to account for how opinion amongst India's attentive public shifted from supporting nuclear disarmament to accepting a more muscular policy, while also looking at what nuclear weapons came to symbolise in these discussions.
Review Quotes:
"[A] fine, meticulously researched and well-written book... This is a scholarly work through and through but the crisis of 2001-2002, the subcontinent's equivalent of the Cuban missile crisis in terms of brinks and abysses beyond, is written up so vividly it has a touch of a chiller-thriller about it."- Peter Hennessy, "ueen Mary, University of London, UK; International Affairs 87:2, 2011