01513nam a22001577a 4500 521617 521617 230216b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Joshi, Yogesh 37331 From ambivalence to resurgence: India’s journey as a nuclear power c 78(2), Jun, 2022: p.350-370 This article aims to understand India’s remarkable nuclear journey in the last 75 years. It categorises India’s atomic trajectory into four distinct periods: Ambivalent (1948–1988), Reserved (1989–1998), Responsible (1998–2008) and Resurgent (2009 onwards). In doing so, the article provides an account of how the changing nature of India’s nuclear programme has impacted the scope and depth of its nuclear deterrence. However, the programme’s status is also consequential for India’s foreign policy practice and its approach to using force in international politics. The article shows how India’s nuclear capability, its foreign policy practice, and its approach to the use of force have seen dramatic shifts in the last thirty years. A resurgent India aims to become a world-class nuclear power, undisturbed by foreign perceptions of its atomic programme and increasingly resolute to use force even under the threat of escalation by its nuclear adversaries. – Reproduced India, Nuclear weapons, Doctrine, Use of force, Foreign policy. 35557 India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs NUCLEAR WEAPONS AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 395691 IIPA IIPA 2023-02-16 78(2), Jun, 2022: p.350-370 AR128001 2023-02-16 AR