Ploughshares and Swords

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