A Debate to Remember
The US–India Nuclear Deal
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9780199481705
Publication date:
11/05/2018
Hardback
332 pages
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ISBN:
9780199481705
Publication date:
11/05/2018
Hardback
332 pages
Chaitanya Ravi
A Debate to Remember emphasizes the multifaceted debate in India over the nuclear deal using concepts from science and technology studies. It focuses on the intense contestation over the civil-military mix of India’s separation plan, the competition between the Iran–Pakistan–India pipeline and the nuclear deal, the role of retired nuclear scientists, and the issue of liability that has stalled the full implementation of the nuclear deal.
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Chaitanya Ravi
Description
The US–India nuclear deal, popularly known as the 123 Agreement, announced by George W. Bush and Manmohan Singh on 18 July 2005, was a defining moment in the relationship of the two countries, as also India’s relationship with the non-proliferation regime. The Bush administration’s implied recognition of India’s nuclear weapons, and its abrupt reversal of three decades of sanctions to restore Indian access to nuclear fuel, reactors, and dual-use technologies despite being a non-proliferation treaty non-signatory, led to contentious debates in both India and the USA.
A Debate to Remember emphasizes the multifaceted debate in India over the nuclear deal using concepts from science and technology studies. It focuses on the intense contestation over the civil-military mix of India’s separation plan, the competition between the Iran–Pakistan–India pipeline and the nuclear deal, the role of retired nuclear scientists, and the issue of liability that has stalled the full implementation of the nuclear deal. The impact of domestic factors on issues ranging from the civil-military status of breeder reactors to the Indian insistence on no restriction on future nuclear testing in the 123 Agreement is also revealed in this book.
About the Author
Chaitanya Ravi is an adjunct professor in environmental science and policy as well as biology at George Mason University, USA.
Chaitanya Ravi
Table of contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
1. How the Deal Was Born: A Collection of Birth Stories
2. Nuclear Partition: The Debate over India’s Nuclear Separation Plan and the Fast Breeder Reactor
3. Pipeline versus Reactors: The Iran–Pakistan–India Pipeline and the US–India Nuclear Deal
4. The Eight Horsemen: Indian Nuclear Scientists and India’s Thermonuclear Capability
5. Nuclear Politics: How the Left Front Was Outmanoeuvred
6. US–India Nuclear Relations Post 2008: The Issue of Liability
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Chaitanya Ravi
Features
- This book will be of interest to anyone interested in learning more about the manner in which domestic factors including bureaucratic rivalries, understandings of Indian Muslim political behaviour by political parties, retired nuclear scientists and inter as well as intra-party politics determine Indian nuclear policy. The book will also help the reader understand the diverse actor-networks and coalitions in India cutting across political, strategic, scientific and media communities that banded together to support or oppose the nuclear deal.
- The book differs from the security-centered contemporary literature on the nuclear deal in its adoption of a constructivist perspective.
- It analyzes how specific technical questions such as the civil-military status of the fast breeder reactors and India’s position on nuclear testing were shaped by the victors of debates in India.
- The book is the most in-depth analysis of the impact of the US-India nuclear deal and the US-India strategic partnership on the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline and Iran-India relations.
- The book is also unique in terms of its sustained focus on the role played by retired nuclear scientists in India in influencing the final Indian negotiating position and the terms of the nuclear agreement.
Chaitanya Ravi
Review
‘This is a fascinating account of how politics and science intersected as India grappled with the nuclear deal.’
—Ashley J. Tellis, Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
‘This book is necessary reading for anyone interested in global nuclear power politics and Indian nuclear history.’
—M.V. Ramana, Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security, University of British Columbia, Canada
‘Ravi’s pathbreaking book is the definitive text on the US–India nuclear accords. Granted unprecedented access to high-level decision-makers in both India and the US, he draws back the curtain on the negotiations in this remarkable, readable and rigorous account. In addition to taking the reader deeply into the worlds of the policy-makers who effected this landmark agreement, Ravi provides a framework that helps make sense of what they did.’
—Hugh Gusterson, Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University, USA, and President, American Ethnological Society
‘This is a serious examination of a seminal event not only in the history of US–India bilateral relations but also in the wider nuclear non-proliferation policy landscape. It covers a wide ranging set of issues with clarity and succeeds in providing important insights into the technical as well as political aspects of the debate on the US–India civil nuclear pact.’
—Harsh V. Pant, Professor of International Relations, King’s College London, UK
Description
The US–India nuclear deal, popularly known as the 123 Agreement, announced by George W. Bush and Manmohan Singh on 18 July 2005, was a defining moment in the relationship of the two countries, as also India’s relationship with the non-proliferation regime. The Bush administration’s implied recognition of India’s nuclear weapons, and its abrupt reversal of three decades of sanctions to restore Indian access to nuclear fuel, reactors, and dual-use technologies despite being a non-proliferation treaty non-signatory, led to contentious debates in both India and the USA.
A Debate to Remember emphasizes the multifaceted debate in India over the nuclear deal using concepts from science and technology studies. It focuses on the intense contestation over the civil-military mix of India’s separation plan, the competition between the Iran–Pakistan–India pipeline and the nuclear deal, the role of retired nuclear scientists, and the issue of liability that has stalled the full implementation of the nuclear deal. The impact of domestic factors on issues ranging from the civil-military status of breeder reactors to the Indian insistence on no restriction on future nuclear testing in the 123 Agreement is also revealed in this book.
About the Author
Chaitanya Ravi is an adjunct professor in environmental science and policy as well as biology at George Mason University, USA.
Reviews
‘This is a fascinating account of how politics and science intersected as India grappled with the nuclear deal.’
—Ashley J. Tellis, Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
‘This book is necessary reading for anyone interested in global nuclear power politics and Indian nuclear history.’
—M.V. Ramana, Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security, University of British Columbia, Canada
‘Ravi’s pathbreaking book is the definitive text on the US–India nuclear accords. Granted unprecedented access to high-level decision-makers in both India and the US, he draws back the curtain on the negotiations in this remarkable, readable and rigorous account. In addition to taking the reader deeply into the worlds of the policy-makers who effected this landmark agreement, Ravi provides a framework that helps make sense of what they did.’
—Hugh Gusterson, Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University, USA, and President, American Ethnological Society
‘This is a serious examination of a seminal event not only in the history of US–India bilateral relations but also in the wider nuclear non-proliferation policy landscape. It covers a wide ranging set of issues with clarity and succeeds in providing important insights into the technical as well as political aspects of the debate on the US–India civil nuclear pact.’
—Harsh V. Pant, Professor of International Relations, King’s College London, UK
Table of contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
1. How the Deal Was Born: A Collection of Birth Stories
2. Nuclear Partition: The Debate over India’s Nuclear Separation Plan and the Fast Breeder Reactor
3. Pipeline versus Reactors: The Iran–Pakistan–India Pipeline and the US–India Nuclear Deal
4. The Eight Horsemen: Indian Nuclear Scientists and India’s Thermonuclear Capability
5. Nuclear Politics: How the Left Front Was Outmanoeuvred
6. US–India Nuclear Relations Post 2008: The Issue of Liability
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
