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100			_aJoshi, Yogesh _937331
245			_aFrom ambivalence to resurgence: India’s journey as a nuclear power
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300			_a78(2), Jun, 2022: p.350-370
520			_aThis 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
650			_aIndia, Nuclear weapons, Doctrine, Use of force, Foreign policy. _935557
773			_aIndia Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs
906			_aNUCLEAR WEAPONS
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