[Nucleus and Nation] Free µ Robert S. Anderson

• Hardcover
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• Nucleus and Nation
• Robert S. Anderson
• English
• 06 March 2018
• 9780226019758

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Review Ë Nucleus and Nation 109 Rson recounts in Nucleus and NationTracing the long institutional and individual preparations for India’s first nuclear test and its conseuences Anderson begins with the careers of India’s renowned scientists Meghnad Saha Shanti Bhatnagar Homi Bhabha and their patron Jawaharlal Nehru in the first half of the twentieth century before focusing on the evolution of the large and complex scientific community especially Vikram Sarabhi in the later part of the era By contextua

Review Ë Nucleus and Nation 109 In 1974 India joined the elite roster of nuclear world powers when it exploded its first nuclear bomb But the technological progress that facilitated that feat was set in motion many decades before as India sought both independence from the British and respect from the larger world Over the course of the twentieth century India metamorphosed from a marginal place to a serious hub of technological and scientific innovation It is this tale of transformation that Robert S Ande

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Review Ë Nucleus and Nation 109 Lizing Indian debates over nuclear power within the larger conversation about modernization and industrialization Anderson hones in on the thorny issue of the integration of science into the framework and self reliant ideals of Indian nationalism In this way Nucleus and Nation is than a history of nuclear science and engineering and the Indian Atomic Energy Commission; it is a uniue perspective on the history of Indian nationhood and the politics of its scientific community