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Article: India - Big bang.(Review)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- February 19, 2000
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INDIA'S NUCLEAR BOMB. By George Perkovich. University of California Press; 673 pages; $39.95 and Pounds24.50
WHY do it at all? And why then? These two questions rattled the outside world and even puzzled some Indians in May 1998 as their new Hindu-nationalist government unexpectedly detonated five nuclear devices under the Rajasthan desert. The world has since moved on to worry about more conventional sorts of crises, from Kosovo to Kashmir. But the questions about India's nuclear ambitions still linger.
George Perkovich's meticulously researched and well-written account of India's decades-long quest for nuclear knowledge offers plenty of possible ...