Asia Society invites you to meet author GEORGE PERKOVICH
to discuss his new book, INDIA'S NUCLEAR BOMB

In India’s Nuclear Bomb, George Perkovich tracks the development of India’s nuclear capability over the past fifty years and explores India’s threat to global security in the wake of the 1998 detonations. This startling account details India’s struggle for international acknowledgement and questions dominant assumptions about the underlying motivations for seeking nuclear capability. The author, who also serves as the director of the Secure World Program for the W.Alton Jones foundation, will address the following questions:

• Why did India bid for nuclear status when 149 other nations had signed a ban on nuclear weapons testing?
• What drove India’s new Hindu nationalist government to depart from decades of nuclear self-restraint?
• How did the U.S. help India acquire nuclear capability and could the U.S. have done anything to stop it?
• How do ethical and cultural concerns underlie India’s seemingly paradoxical stance about nuclear weapons?