Ploughshares and swords : (Record no. 1308963)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250603171316.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781501765018 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | SDCL |
| Transcribing agency | SDCL |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Source of code | eng |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 084 ## - COLON CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | V2:19(C9B3)'P R2 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sarkar, Jayita |
| 9 (RLIN) | 752261 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Ploughshares and swords : |
| Remainder of title | India's nuclear program in the global cold war |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Ithaca : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Cornell University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2022. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvi, 282p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty years. The book foregrounds the program's civilian and military features by probing its close relationship with the space program. Through nuclear and space technologies, India's leaders served the technopolitical aims of economic modernity and the geopolitical goals of deterring adversaries.<br/><br/>The politically savvy, transnationally connected scientists and engineers who steered the program obtained technologies, materials, and information through a variety of state and nonstate actors from Europe and North America, including both superpowers. They thus maneuvered around Cold War politics and the choke points of the nonproliferation regime. Hyperdiversification increased choices for the leaders of the nuclear program but reduced democratic accountability at home. The nuclear program became a consensus-enforcing device in the name of the nation.<br/><br/>Ploughshares and Swords is a provocative new history with global implications. It shows how geopolitical and technopolitical visions influence decisions about the nation after decolonization.<br/><br/>Thanks to generous funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Nuclear energy -- India -- History -- 20th century -- Government policy -- India -- History -- 20th century |
| 9 (RLIN) | 811659 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Nuclear weapons -- India -- History -- 20th century -- Government policy -- India -- History -- 20th century |
| 9 (RLIN) | 811660 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Technology and state -- India -- History -- 20th century |
| 9 (RLIN) | 811661 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Colon Classification (CC) |
| Koha item type | Textual |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Inventory number | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Colon Classification (CC) | South Campus Library | South Campus Library | 2025-04-14 | Efficient Book Distributors | 9360, 26/11/2024, UKP 21.99 | V2:19(C9B3)'P R2 | SC1690587 | 2025-04-14 | 2025-04-14 | Textual |