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Publicatie Laka-bibliotheek:
Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream (2005)

Auteur	Ramana
Datum	2005
Classificatie	4.03.3.10/02 (INDIA - PROLIFERATIE)
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Preface

One of the fallouts of the nuclear tests of May 1998 has been an explosion in the 
number of books on India's nuclear weapons programme. These books have been 
written by academics, journalists, retired military personnel and that unique brand 
of opinion-makers who surface during times of tension between countries--defence 
strategists. Why then another?
The answer is simple. When Orient Longman commissioned this volume we felt 
there was a need for an explicit critique of nuclear weapons and the nuclearisation 
programme adopted by India. We therefore decided that this book would give voice 
to those who have been critical of the nuclear tests and consequently drowned out by 
the orchestrated applause that followed Pokhran 1998. Our basic premise is that 
nuclear weapons do not provide security and that the decision by India and Pakistan 
to go nuclear has resulted in a deterioration of the security environment in South 
Asia. We wanted to highlight several other negative outcomes that have been largely 
ignored by the contemporary literature.
The books published in recent years by Indian intellectuals have almost uniformly 
espoused the dominant paradigm favouring India's acquisition of these weapons of 
mass destruction. While a large majority of the public intellectuals in the West have 
traditionally been critical of nuclear weapons, the Indian intellectuals appear to 
have, by and large, abandoned their critical role and preferred to embrace the
agenda set by the establishment.

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