Overview

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.

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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

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

'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 '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 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 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

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Chaitanya Ravi is an adjunct professor in environmental science and policy as well as biology at George Mason University, USA.

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