The Buddha Smiles: Absent-Minded Peaceful Aid and the Indian Bomb (1977)
This report, a version of which was filed with the U.S. Department of Energy’s predecessor, analyzes how diplomatic confusion over the terms of U.S.-India nuclear cooperation in the 1950s, 60s and 70s unwittingly facilitated India”s construction and May 1974 detonation of a nuclear explosive device. It...