Nuclear Myths and Realities: India's Dilemma

This book, Nuclear Myths and Realities: India's Dilemma, brings together nine papers, written by eight scholars at the Institute of Defense Studies and Analysis and the Jawaharlal Nehru University, concerned with the military and civil uses of nuclear energy. The authors treat these technical issues without a single mathematical equation, with no graphs, and no chemical formulas. Apparently, in India and other countries, the defense and military uses of nuclear energy are considered to be in the realm of political science, history, or law rather than in the hard sciences. Serious reading of the book requires that technical personnel acquire a new vocabulary. Examples are: 1. crypto-nuclear states 2. free-form weapons of mass destruction 3. horizontal versus vertical proliferation 4. pariah states 5. subsidiary alliance system...