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Now You See It, Now You Don't: India's Nuclear History

Tue. July 25th, 2000
Presenter: Dr. George Perkovich, Director, Secure World Program at the W. Alton Jones Foundation, and author of India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation (1999)

Co-Chairs:
Mr. Benjamin Frankel, Editor, Security Studies

Mr. Jon Wolfsthal, Associate, Non-Proliferation Project, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Dr. George Perkovich, author of India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation (University of California Press: 1999), gave a thought-provoking presentation on India's nuclear history. He expounded on India's distinct, largely status-drive calculus on nuclear weapons, and the country's sensitivity to perceptions of foreign interference on sovereign decisions.

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Jon Wolfsthal

Nonresident Scholar, Nuclear Policy Program

Jon Wolfsthal was a nonresident scholar with the Nuclear Policy Program.