Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream

Edited by M.V. Ramana and C. Rammanohar Reddy

New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2003, xiii, 502 p. ISBN 81 250 2477 8.

Contents

Introduction/M.V. Ramana and C. Rammanohar Reddy.  

Issues of Strategy and Foreign Relations  

  • Strategic threats and nuclear weapons: India, China and Pakistan/Kanti Bajpai.
  • Nuclear weapons and national security/Admiral L. Ramdas.
  • A nuclear tiger by the Tail: problems of command and control in South Asia/Zia Mian.
  • Managing nuclear weapons in South Asia: in search of a model/Ejaz Haider.
  • China—India relations/Ye Zhengjia.

Issues of Science and Ethics  

  • India and the bomb/Amartya Sen.
  • Designing nuclear weapons: the moral question/Amulya K.N. Reddy.
  • La Trahison des Clercs: scientists and India’s nuclear bomb/M.V. Ramana.
  • A mandate for nuclear prudence: International Court of Justice on nuclear weapons/Siddharth Mallavarapu.

Issues of Militarisation, Politics and Economics of Nuclear Weapons  

  • Militarism, development and democracy/Jean Dreze.
  • The politics of the bomb: some observations on the political discourse in India in the context of Pokhran II/V. Krishna Ananth.
  • Nuclear frames: official nationalism, the nuclear bomb, and the anti-nuclear movement in India/Srirupa Roy
  • Nuclear weapons versus schools for children: an estimate of the cost of the Indian nuclear weapons programme/C. Rammanohar Reddy

Issues of Environment and Health 

  • The price we pay: from Uranium to weapons/M.V. Ramana and Surendra Gadekar.
  • The last deadly sin: effects of nuclear weapons on humans/Thomas George.



 

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