Book ID: CBB000954753

South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan (2009)

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Abraham, Itty (Editor)


Indiana University Press


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: 222 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Phalkey, Jahnavi (2010) Review of "South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 285). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Roy, Srirupa (2009) The Politics of Death: The Antinuclear Imaginary in India. In: South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan (p. 113). unapi

Chapter Kaur, Raminder (2009) Gods, Bombs, and the Social Imaginary. In: South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan (p. 150). unapi

Chapter Dadi, Iftikhar (2009) Nuclearization and Pakistani Popular Culture since 1998. In: South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan (p. 173). unapi

Chapter Abraham, Itty (2009) Introduction: Nuclear Power and Atomic Publics. In: South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan (p. 1). unapi

Chapter Mian, Zia (2009) Fevered with Dreams of the Future: The Coming of the Atomic Age to Pakistan. In: South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan (p. 20). unapi

Chapter Krishna, Sankaran (2009) The Social Life of a Bomb: India and the Ontology of an “Overpopulated” Society. In: South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan (p. 68). unapi

Chapter Nizamani, Haider (2009) Pakistan's Atomic Publics: Survey Results. In: South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan (p. 133). unapi

Chapter Frey, Karsten (2009) Guardians of the Nuclear Myth: Politics, Ideology, and India's Strategic Community. In: South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan (p. 195). unapi

Chapter Ramana, M. V. (2009) India's Nuclear Enclave and the Practice of Secrecy. In: South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan (p. 41). unapi

Chapter Durrani, Ammara (2009) Pride and Proliferation: Pakistan's Nuclear Psyche after A. Q. Khan. In: South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan (p. 89). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Gordin, Michael D.
Krzysztof Dabrowski
David Bath
Elisabeth Roehrlich
Wellerstein, Alex
Weber, Claudia
Journals
History and Technology
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Journal of Contemporary History
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Publishers
Helion and Company
University of Chicago Press
Princeton University Press
Permanent Black
Oxford University Press
Naval Institute Press
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Technology and war; technology and the military
Science and war; science and the military
Cold War
Technology and government
Arms race
People
Truman, Harry S.
Stalin, Joseph
Eisenhower, Dwight David
Khan, Abdul Qadeer
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
India
Pakistan
Soviet Union
Great Britain
Ghana
Institutions
Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Trombay, Bombay
Atoms for Peace 1983 Washington, DC
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
United States Air Force (USAF)
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