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Book SynopsisA collection of essays that examines the political and ideological components of national drives to possess and test nuclear weapons.
Trade Review[The author] Abraham has brought together scholars writing on both Pakistan and India to reflect on the place of science, the atomic question, popular culture and the state. In doing so, he has managed to push forward a perspective that is transnational in a meaningful way for the subcontinent. . . . Vol. 43.2 June 2010
-- Jahnavi Phalkey * British Journal for the History of Science *
For the first time scholars in this book present a multivoiced assessment of the subtle sociocultural effects of the 1998 nuclear tests in India and Pakistan. ...This book proves conclusively, again, that a partition done haphazardly in 1947 led to very different experiences in the evolution of military–industrial–political complexes in each country. But where others have focused largely on states and strategic cultures, these authors, under Abraham's able editorship, show how these two atomic publics are constructed and interact with their surroundings.Vol. 83.2 June 2010
-- Robert S. Anderson * Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada *
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Nuclear Power and Atomic Publics / Itty Abraham
2. Fevered with Dreams of the Future: The Coming of the Atomic Age to Pakistan / Zia Mian
3. India's Nuclear Enclave and the Practice of Secrecy / M. V. Ramana
4. The Social Life of a Bomb: India and the Ontology of an "Overpopulated" Society / Sankaran Krishna
5. Pride and Proliferation: Pakistan's Nuclear Psyche after A. Q. Khan / Ammara Durrani
6. The Politics of Death: The Antinuclear Imaginary in India / Srirupa Roy
7. Pakistan's Atomic Publics: Survey Results / Haider Nizamani
8. Gods, Bombs, and the Social Imaginary / Raminder Kaur
9. Nuclearization and Pakistani Popular Culture since 1998 / Iftikhar Dadi
10. Guardians of the Nuclear Myth: Politics, Ideology, and India's Strategic Community / Karsten Frey
List of Contributors
Index
