Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century

DAMODAR R. SARDESAI is Professor Emeritus in History at UCLA. His publications include Southeast Asia - Past and Present (1981), Second edition (1989), Third edition (1994), Vietnam, Trials and Tribulations of a Nation (1988), Second edition (1992). He was co-editor of The Legacy of Nehru, A Centennial Assessment (1992). - RAJU G.C. THOMAS is the Allis Chalmers Professor of International Affairs at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His books include The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Prospects for the Twenty-First Century, (Macmillan & St. Martin's Press, 1998); India's Nuclear Security (Lynne Rienner/ Sage, 2000). He is currently completing two books entitled Self-Determination Versus State Sovereighnty in the Age of Globalization (Burnham/ Nelson-Hall), and Markets and Politics in India. Thomas has published over 60 book chapters and journal articles.

• 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

"The book will greatly interest scholars and policy makers concerned with nonproliferation..." - S.A. Kochanek, Choice