Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century

This book provides an important picture of India's nuclear intentions and capabilities at the beginning of the 21st century. Academic and governmental experts from both the United States and India explore the strategic, technological, military and economic dimensions of India's nuclear world. The contributors bring their expertise together in an unusual mix of viewpoints from three continents on the several dimensions of a nuclear India at the turn of the century. It is an important resource in the United States to help policymakers respond to the regional and global proliferation problems that have resulted from India and Pakistan's nuclear tests of 1998. It is an important aid to India in exploring and evaluating its nuclear strategy and the political, economic and military consequences of its nuclear decisions.

D. R. SarDesai is the Navin and Pratima Doshi Professor of Indian History at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Raju G. C. Thomas is the Allis Chalmers Professor of International Affairs at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.