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In 1994 the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace studies, in cooperation with the Fourth Freedom Forum, conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of the Indian public's attitude toward nuclear arms, and in India and the Bomb the findings of that landmark survey are examined.
The survey reveals that a majority of Indian elites favor New Delhi's policy of nuclear ambiguity, i.e., neither confirming nor denying the country's nuclear war capability, while one-third of the respondents favor an overt nuclear weapons status for India, citing as reasons their concerns of a possible nuclear threat from Pakistan, as well as the desire to enhance India's international power and prestige. They survey and the accompanying essays also explore the conditions that might persuade Indian elites to renounce the nuclear option.
India and the Bomb provides an in-depth view of the nuclear choices currently facing India and all of South Asia—from nuclear abstinence to outright weaponization—and uses the findings of the public opinion poll to evaluate the level of popular support for each option. The survey results and the accompanying essays, written by a new generation of Indian scholars, introduce new voices into the debate on nuclear policy and thereby help to democratize the discussion of India's nuclear options.
South Asia area specialists, international relations scholars, and nuclear proliferation experts will appreciate India and the Bomb for its fresh methodology in addressing this vital issue of international security.
Contributors: Kanti Bajpai, David Cortright, Aabha Dixit, Sumit Ganguly, Amitabh Mattoo, Varun Sahni, Jackie g. Smith, Raimo Väyrynen.
"Superb scholarship. Never before has a single book combined a rich description of public attitudes with a fair discussion of India's real nuclear options." —Thomas W. Graham, The Rockefeller Foundation
"India and the Bomb is the first scientific study conducted by a team of young and eminent researchers answering several questions pertaining to the on-going nuclear debate...The essays in the book cover all important themes which are relevant to the Indian nuclear debate. In particular, the appendices dealing with the survey are a valuable part of this study." —World Affairs
An intriguing study of what the Indian elite thinks about nuclear weapons. The data are taken from a specially commis sioned survey by one of India's leading market research companies and analyzed by several American and Indian defense specialists." —Foreign Affairs
"An extremely useful new tool for understanding Indian nuclear policy and the dynamics of proliferation in South Asia." —Leonard Spector, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
David Cortright has served as President of the Fourth Freedom Forum since 1992. He is also a visiting fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institue for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Peace Works, The Citizen’s Role in Ending the Cold War (1993), and coauthor of Economic Sanctions: Panacea or Peacebuilding in a Post-Cold War World? (1995).
Amitabh Mattoo, Associate Professor at the School for International Studies, Jawaharial Nehru University, India, is the author of The *Politics of Protest: A Study of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament *(1995).