Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb
By Strobe Talbott.
Description
On May 11, 1998, three nuclear devices detonated under the Thar Desert in India shook the surrounding villages —and the rest of the world. The immediate effect was to plunge U.S.-India relations, already vexed by decades of tension and estrangement, into a new crisis. The situation deteriorated further when Pakistan responded in kind two weeks later, testing a nuclear weapon for the first time. Engaging India is the firsthand story of the diplomacy conducted between the United States and the two South Asian neighbors after the nuclear tests. In this book, the American point man for t...
ISBN(s)
0815783000, 9780815783008
