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Documents on Dr. Homi Bhabha years released
IDSA’s Nuclear History Project is pleased to announce the release of 43 documents pertaining to the initial years of India’s nuclear history. The documents, released in association with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)#, primarily showcases the initial years of nuclear decision making, the organisation of the atomic energy establishment and associated infrastructure, and the dynamics of international cooperation, among others. The highlight of the collection is the correspondence records between Dr. Homi Bhabhi and key personalities including Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr S.S. Bhatnagar, among others. The collection lists documents that reflects the early debates on nuclear energy, disarmament, nuclear testing, international civilian nuclear cooperation, and narrates through letters and documents the genesis and establishment of national institutions like TIFR, the Atomic Energy Establishment Trombay (AEET)/Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), and the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).
Click here to access the documents [+]
About the project: The Nuclear History Project is the platform set up by IDSA as part of its participation in the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (NPIHP). The NPIHP, conceived by the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars, Washington and the Machiavelli Institute of Cold War Studies (CIWA), Rome, is an international effort to trace the history of nuclear weapons as well as the nuclear histories of countries that has pursued nuclear weapon programmes. Launched in January 2010, the Project intends to extensively mine archives and use empirical sources and oral histories in countries being studied to examine and understand the dynamics of nuclear decision making. This study will help understand the historical casuals of proliferation, and how it influenced the evolution of the non-proliferation regime and its related mechanisms and processes.
The IDSA Nuclear History Project has begun mining of archival resources in the country with the objective of setting up a digital archive. IDSA has also initiated an oral history component which could faciliate the creation of a major audio-visual compendium of first-hand reflections and reminiscences of personalities associated with India’s nuclear decision making and policy debates.
The collection was compiled by Shri A. Vinod Kumar and Shri Kapil Patil.
You could write to us at: indiannuclearhistory@gmail.com.
[# IDSA is grateful to Prof. Arun Grover, Ms. Ananya Dasgupta and Ms. Ritu Saini of TIFR for their guidance and support in gathering the compendium of records from the TIFR archives.] |
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