Light Water Capitalism: Nonproliferation and U.S. Global Power

Jayita Sarkar is an Assistant Professor at Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies, where she teaches diplomatic and political history. Her research has been published in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Cold War History, International History Review, Journal of Strategic Studies, Nonproliferation Review, and elsewhere. Her first book, Ploughshares & Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press, forthcoming, 2022) examines the first forty years of India’s nuclear program through the prisms of geopolitics and technopolitics.

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