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Title: New Nukes: India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament by Praful Bidwai, Achin Vanaik, Arundhati Roy ISBN: 1-56656-317-8 Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Pub. Date: January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Scholarly Worthwhile
Comment: Having used this text for University, I highly recommend this book for understanding what is happening in South Asia's nuclear arms race, particularly since it was printed after the nuclear test detonations by India and Pakistan in May 1998. Though the content is sometimes personal opinion, there is enough verifiable information in regard to the leadup, execution and aftermath of May 1998's tests.
Rating: 1
Summary: A far left view of India's nuclear program
Comment: Bidwai and Vanaik are the spokesmen of Indian fringe left -- a group which, unfortunately, wields much more influence than it deserves. Their argumentation is reflexively driven by what is to the advantage of China (the darling of Indian Marxists even though its economy is unabashedly capitalist and its prisons churn out goods for export to the West) and what will lead to India's fragmentation. It is still a worthwhile book to read to get to understand the extreme left in India.
Rating: 5
Summary: A critically important and informative study.
Comment: India and Pakistani are both nuclear powers with an active nuclear arsenal. They have also engaged in both declared and undeclared states of war with each other since achieving statehood and independence from colonial control. Praful Bidwai and Achin Vanaik are two of India's respected and experienced journalists, and long-time anti-nuclear activists who in New Nukes: India, Pakistan And Global Nuclear Disarmament examine the causes and consequences of the Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests. They provide a sound and informative framework for understanding the global context in which these two nuclear nations operate and map out a new approach to nuclear abolition, in which not only South Asia's newest nuclear states, but the oldest and mightiest Western nuclear powers would begin serious efforts toward full and complete nuclear disarmament. The trigger to nuclear holocaust is no longer the tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, but rather between the two poverty stricken, overpopulated, resource depleted, religious intolerant, border disputing nations of India and Pakistan. The disarmament proposals laid out in New Nukes, may be their, and our, last best hope of avoiding a nuclear holocaust and the extinction of the human race.
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