TY - BOOK AU - Itty Abraham TI - The making of the Indian atomic bomb : science, secrecy and the postcolonial state SN - 9788125016151 U1 - 355.8251190954 PY - 1999/// CY - New Delhi PB - Orient Longman KW - Nuclear nonproliferation KW - Nuclear weapons KW - Nuclear weapons--Testing--Law and legislation KW - India KW - Atomic bomb N2 - This book is the first serious historical account of the development of India s nuclear programme and of how the bomb came to be made. It is also a pioneering exploration of the sociology of science in a Third World context and offers a radically new argument about the Indian state and its post-colonial crisis of legitimacy ER -