01183nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802800350007608200150011110000190012624501090014526000550025430000310030936500070034052005570034765000200090465000140092465000210093870000180095920260603133320.0260603b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780253220325  aDonated by Prof. Romila Thapar  a355.02 ABR  aAbraham, Itty.  aSouth Asian cultures of the bombb : atomic publics and the state in India and Pakistan.c/Itty Abraham.  aBloomingtonb : Indiana University Press,c ,2009.  a222 p. b: ill. c; 24 cm.  b00  aSince their founding as independent nations, nuclear issues have been key elements of nationalism and the public sphere in both India and Pakistan. Yet the relationship between nuclear arms and civil society in the region is seldom taken into account in conventional security studies. These original and provocative essays examine the political and ideological components of national drives to possess and test nuclear weapons. Equal coverage for comparable issues in each country frames the volume as a genuine dialogue across this contested boundary.  aNuclear weapons  aPakistan.  aMilitary policy.  aItty Abraham