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
Language: English


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

Description Contents:


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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.
Baracca, Angelo
Bernstein, Barton J.
Carolino, Luís Miguel
Ceruzzi, Paul E.
Durrani, Ammara
Journals
History and Technology
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology
Journal of Contemporary History
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Publishers
Columbia University Press
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Hamburger Edition
Johns Hopkins University Press
MIT 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
Science and politics
People
Stalin, Joseph
Truman, Harry S.
Khan, Abdul Qadeer
Eisenhower, Dwight David
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
India
Soviet Union
Pakistan
Great Britain
Vienna (Austria)
Institutions
United States Air Force (USAF)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Atoms for Peace 1983 Washington, DC
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Trombay, Bombay
Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology
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