Nuclear Policy of India

Contents: Preface. 1. India’s Nuclear Weapons programme. 2. India’s Nuclear Policy-Forms pleading disarmament to building deterrence. 3. India’s nuclear draft doctrine. 4. India’s nuclear capability, security concerns and the recent tests. 5. Nuclear power – An Alternative. 6. India and CTBT. 7. India’s emerging nuclear doctrine: Exemplifying the lessons of the nuclear revolution. 8. India’s nuclear doctrine: Context and constraints. 9. Nuclear non-proliferation: An Indian perspective. 10. The India nuclear deal: implications for global climate change. 11. Nuclear weapons command and control dilemma. 12. U.S. and India civil Nuclear agreement. 13. Nuclear power in India. 14. The civil liability for nuclear damage bill (2010). Bibliography.

This book examines the Indian nuclear policy, doctrine, strategy and posture clarifying the elastic concept of credible minimum deterrence at the center of the country’s approach to nuclear security. This concept, demonstrates, permits the Indian nuclear forces to be beefed up, size and quality-wise, and to acquire strategic reach and clout. An attempt has been made to go into both the policy and programme aspects of India’s nuclear development and factors influencing them. It examines of the various national choices of nuclear policies involving consideration of diverse and often mutually conflicting objectives. It also analyses the growth and development of institutional infrastructure for the development of nuclear energy in India.