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. |
