Out Of The Nuclear Shadow
| Editors: |
Smitu Kothari & Zia Mian |
| Publisher: |
Oxford University Press |
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Description:
This book highlights the diversity of voices, traditions, and approaches
that are weaving themselves into an anti-nuclear and peace movement
in India and Pakistan. In these essays, written before, during, and
after the May 1998 nuclear explosions, scholars and activists from
the two countries attempt to understand and challenge the
nuclearization of South Asia. The essays are an act of resistance
against governments that see nuclear weapons as a currency of
power, as symbols of prestige, sources of security, and moments
of glory in an otherwise dismal contemporary history.
The collection includes Mahatma Gandhi's response to the atomic
bombing of Hiroshima as well as writings by Eqbal Ahmad, Arundhati
Roy, Pervez Hoodbhoy, Beena Sarwar, Amartya Sen, and veteran
anti-nuclear activists, academics, and journalists.
| DesiStore # |
PBH01045 |
| ISBN |
0-19-579855-4 |
| Edition |
First |
| Year |
2003 |
| Pages |
300 |
| Weight (kg) |
0.52 |
| Shipping Weight (lbs) |
1.32 |
| HB/PB |
Hard Back |
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Review:
Nuclear weapons `bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our
brains', says celebrated Indian author Arundhati Roy. They pervade our
politics, suffuse our thinking, and may determine our fate.
Roy wants rid of them, as do the other Indian and Pakistani writers who
have contributed to Out of the Nuclear Shadow, an eclectic collection of
anti-nuclear essays. Including works by Mahatma Gandhi and Eqbal Ahmad,
it exposes the cold war doctrine of nuclear deterrence as a myth, and shows
that the huge resources soaked up by nuclear weapons deprive people of
food, homes, and education. Atomic bombs are not a guarantee of life but
a harbinger of death.
-Rob Edwards, New Scientist
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