Making the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party 's nuclear tests in
1998 its starting point, this book examines how opinion amongst
India 's attentive public shifted from supporting nuclear
abstinence to accepting and even feeling a need for a more
assertive policy, by examining the complexities of the debate in
India on nuclear policy in the 1990s.
The study seeks to account for the shift in opinion by looking
at the parallel processes of how nuclear policy became an important
part of the public discourse in India, and what it came to
symbolise for the country 's intelligentsia during this decade. It
argues that the pressure on New Delhi in the early 1990s to fall in
line with the non-proliferation regime, magnified by India 's
declining global influence at the time, caused the issue to cease
being one of defence, making it a focus of nationalist pride
instead. The country 's nuclear programme thus emerged as a test of
its ability to withstand external compulsions, guaranteeing not so
much the sanctity of its borders as a certain political idea of it
that of a modern, scientific and, most importantly, sovereign state
able to defend its policies and set its goals.
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