India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation

This comprehensive history of how the world's largest democracy, India, has grappled with the twin desires to have and to renounce the bomb, has been updated with a new afterword which takes into account the developments from late-1999 to February 2001. Each chapter contains significant historical revelations drawn from scores of interviews with India's key scientists, military leaders, diplomats and politicians and from declassified US government documents.