Book ID: CBB000083787

The making of the Indian atomic bomb: Science, secrecy, and the postcolonial state (1998)

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Abraham, Itty (Author)


Zed Books


Publication Date: 1998
Physical Details: ix + 180 pp.; notes; bibl.; index

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Review Chellaney, B. (1999) Review of "The making of the Indian atomic bomb: Science, secrecy, and the postcolonial state". Nature (pp. 113-14). unapi

Review Anderson, R. (1999) Review of "The making of the Indian atomic bomb: Science, secrecy, and the postcolonial state". TLS: Times Literary Supplement (p. 26). unapi

Review Kumar, D. (2001) Review of "The making of the Indian atomic bomb: Science, secrecy, and the postcolonial state". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 213). unapi

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Andersen, Casper
Day, Michael A.
Feldman, James W.
Hogg, Jonathan
Krupar, Jason N.
Kunetka, James W.
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Technology and Culture
Cold War History
Humanities and Technology Review
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
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Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
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Science and war; science and the military
Technology and society
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Fermi, Enrico
Heisenberg, Werner
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21st century
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Great Britain
Soviet Union
Japan
Germany
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