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Indias Nuclear Bomb and National Security gives an analytic account of the dynamics of Indias nuclear build up. It puts forward a new comprehensive model, which goes beyond the classic strategic model of accepting motives of arming behaviour, and incorporates the dynamics in Indias nuclear programme. The core argument of the book surrounds the question about Indias security considerations and their impact on Indias nuclear policy development.Karsten Frey explores this analytic model by including explanatory variables on the unit-level, where interests are generally related to symbolic, less strategic values attributed to nuclear weapons. These play a significant role within Indias domestic political party competition and among certain pressure groups. They also impacted Indias relationship with other countries on non-proliferation matters, for example the concept of the countrys status and prestige.Identifying the role of the strategic elite in determining Indias nuclear course, this book also argues that one of the pivotal driving forces behind Indias quest for the nuclear bomb is Indias struggle for international recognition and the strong, often obsessive sensitivities of Indias elite regarding acts of discrimination or ignorance by the West towards India.

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Indias Nuclear Bomb and National Security
This book gives an analytic account of the dynamics of Indias nuclear build-up. In contrast to conventional studies on the issue, the author puts forward a new model, which goes beyond the classic strategic concept of accepting securityrelated motives of arming behaviour. According to this, the structural conditions of Indias regional security environment were permissive to Indias nuclear development but not sufficient to make Indias nuclearization imperative for maintaining its national security. At the core of the argument lies the question about Indias security considerations and their impact on Indias nuclear policy development. The author explores this analytic model by including explanatory variables on the unit-level, where interests are generally related to symbolic, less strategic, values attributed to nuclear weapons. These play a significant role within Indias domestic political party competition and among certain pressure groups. They have also influenced Indias relationship with other countries on non-proliferation matters. This book identifies the role of the strategic elite in determining Indias nuclear course. Furthermore, it argues that one of the pivotal driving forces behind Indias quest for the nuclear bomb is Indias struggle for international recognition and the strong, often obsessive sensitivities of Indias elite regarding perceived acts of discrimination or ignorance by the West towards India.

Karsten Frey is Research Fellow at the Institut Barcelona dEstudis Internacionals, IBEI. His research focus is on issues of global nuclear proliferation.
Routledge Advances in South Asian studies
Edited by Subrata K. Mitra
South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany

South Asia, with its burgeoning, ethnically diverse population, soaring economies, and nuclear weapons, is an increasingly important region in the global context. The series, which builds on this complex, dynamic and volatile area, features innovative and original research on the region as a whole or on the countries. Its scope extends to scholarly works drawing on history, politics, development studies, sociology and economics of individual countries from the region, as well as those that take an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the area as a whole or to a comparison of two or more countries from this region. In terms of theory and method, rather than basing itself on any one orthodoxy, the series draws broadly on the insights germane to area studies, as well as the tool kit of the social sciences in general, emphasizing comparison, the analysis of the structure and processes, and the application of qualitative and quantitative methods. The series welcomes submissions from established authors in the field as well as from young authors who have recently completed their doctoral dissertations.

1. Perception, Politics and Security in South Asia
The Compound Crisis of 1990
P. R. Chari, Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema and Stephen Philip Cohen

2. Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism
Edited by Katharine Adeney and Lawrence Saez

3. The Puzzle of Indias Governance
Culture, context and comparative theory
Subrata K. Mitra

4. Indias Nuclear Bomb and National Security
Karsten Frey
First published 2006
by Routledge
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2006 Karsten Frey
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ISBN 0-203-96868-9 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN10: 0-415-40132-1 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-203-96868-9 (ebk)
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ISBN13: 978-0-203-96868-0 (ebk)
To Phea and Tristan

Veritas filia temporis
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Acknowledgements
I am thankful to Subrata K. Mitra for showing me the particularities of strategic thinking among Indias elite, and to Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema for introducing me to the complexity of the conflict between India and Pakistan. Additionally, I am grateful for the comments and suggestions of several colleagues who helped point out empirical weaknesses and ambiguities in the preliminary drafts. In particular, I benefited from conversations with several Indian academics and military officers. For his diligent assistance in collecting and processing data, I am indebted to Eric Decker.
This monograph is the first part of what is intended as a larger project on Non-Security Related Motives of Nuclear Arming Behaviour and their Impact onGlobal Nonproliferation Regime Building. I gratefully acknowledge the generous support given by the team at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI), particularly that of Narcs Serra and Jacint Jordana who provided an ideal atmosphere for research and writing. For his administrative support, I would like to thank Carlos Snchez.
Special thanks go to Edward Dunlap who has painstakingly worked to bring the crude English of the original manuscript into publishable style.
Finally, I would like to thank the editors of Routledge, and Dorothea Schaefter, Tom Bates, and Heather Munro who managed editing and book production.
List of acronyms and abbreviations
AEC
Atomic Energy Commission (of India)
AEET
Atomic Energy Establishment Trombay
AS
Attitude Scale
BARC
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
BJP
Bharatiya Janata Party
BWC
Biological Weapons Convention
CANDU
Canadian DeuteriumUranium (Reactor)
C3I
Command, Control, Communication, and Intelligence
CBMs
Confidence Building Measures
CCPA
Cabinet Committee for Political Affairs
CD
Conference on Disarmament
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
CIRUS
CanadianIndian Reactor, US
CSIR
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
CTBT
Comprehensive (Nuclear) Test Ban Treaty
CWC
Chemical Weapons Convention
DAE
Department of Atomic Energy
DRDO
Defence Research and Development Organization
FMCT
Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty
GoM
Group of Ministers
H-Bomb
Hydrogen Bomb
HEU
Highly Enriched Uranium
HQ
Head Quarters
IAEA
International Atomic Energy Agency
IAS
Indian Administrative Service
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