Author:
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Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Ploughshare
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Ploughshares and Swords
Author: Jayita Sarkar
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501764411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty years. The book foregrounds the program's civilian and military features by probing its close relationship with the space program. Through nuclear and space technologies, India's leaders served the technopolitical aims of economic modernity and the geopolitical goals of deterring adversaries. The politically savvy, transnationally connected scientists and engineers who steered the program obtained technologies, materials, and information through a variety of state and nonstate actors from Europe and North America, including both superpowers. They thus maneuvered around Cold War politics and the choke points of the nonproliferation regime. Hyperdiversification increased choices for the leaders of the nuclear program but reduced democratic accountability at home. The nuclear program became a consensus-enforcing device in the name of the nation. Ploughshares and Swords is a provocative new history with global implications. It shows how geopolitical and technopolitical visions influence decisions about the nation after decolonization. Thanks to generous funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501764411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty years. The book foregrounds the program's civilian and military features by probing its close relationship with the space program. Through nuclear and space technologies, India's leaders served the technopolitical aims of economic modernity and the geopolitical goals of deterring adversaries. The politically savvy, transnationally connected scientists and engineers who steered the program obtained technologies, materials, and information through a variety of state and nonstate actors from Europe and North America, including both superpowers. They thus maneuvered around Cold War politics and the choke points of the nonproliferation regime. Hyperdiversification increased choices for the leaders of the nuclear program but reduced democratic accountability at home. The nuclear program became a consensus-enforcing device in the name of the nation. Ploughshares and Swords is a provocative new history with global implications. It shows how geopolitical and technopolitical visions influence decisions about the nation after decolonization. Thanks to generous funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
The Sword and the Ploughshare
Author: John Sandford
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
På omslaget : "END Special Report"
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
På omslaget : "END Special Report"
Plowshares
Author: Kristen Tobey
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271078286
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In September 1980, eight Catholic activists made their way into a Pennsylvania General Electric plant housing parts for nuclear missiles. Evading security guards, these activists pounded on missile nose cones with hammers and then covered the cones in their own blood. This act of nonviolent resistance was their answer to calls for prophetic witness in the Old Testament: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not take up sword against nation; they shall never again know war.” Plowshares explores the closely interwoven religious and social significance of the group’s use of performance to achieve its goals. It looks at the group’s acts of civil disobedience, such as that undertaken at the GE plant in 1980, and the Plowshares’ behavior at the legal trials that result from these protests. Interpreting the Bible as a mandate to enact God’s kingdom through political resistance, the Plowshares work toward “symbolic disarmament,” with the aim of eradicating nuclear weapons. Plowshares activists continue to carry out such “divine obediences” against facilities where equipment used in the production or deployment of nuclear weapons is manufactured or stored. Whether one agrees or disagrees with their actions, this volume helps us better understand their motivations, logic, identity, and ultimate goal.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271078286
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In September 1980, eight Catholic activists made their way into a Pennsylvania General Electric plant housing parts for nuclear missiles. Evading security guards, these activists pounded on missile nose cones with hammers and then covered the cones in their own blood. This act of nonviolent resistance was their answer to calls for prophetic witness in the Old Testament: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not take up sword against nation; they shall never again know war.” Plowshares explores the closely interwoven religious and social significance of the group’s use of performance to achieve its goals. It looks at the group’s acts of civil disobedience, such as that undertaken at the GE plant in 1980, and the Plowshares’ behavior at the legal trials that result from these protests. Interpreting the Bible as a mandate to enact God’s kingdom through political resistance, the Plowshares work toward “symbolic disarmament,” with the aim of eradicating nuclear weapons. Plowshares activists continue to carry out such “divine obediences” against facilities where equipment used in the production or deployment of nuclear weapons is manufactured or stored. Whether one agrees or disagrees with their actions, this volume helps us better understand their motivations, logic, identity, and ultimate goal.
Ploughshares Into Swords
Author: Vladislav Vančura
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788024648088
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788024648088
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Set the Ploughshare Deep
Author: Timothy Murphy
Publisher: Ohio University Center for International Studies
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"Timothy Murphy has harvested pheasants and ducks as well as wheat and apples. For him, hunting is often an extended reflection on mortality, yet it also affords apt occasions for his quirky sense of humor.".
Publisher: Ohio University Center for International Studies
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"Timothy Murphy has harvested pheasants and ducks as well as wheat and apples. For him, hunting is often an extended reflection on mortality, yet it also affords apt occasions for his quirky sense of humor.".
The history of ancient art, tr. by G.H. Lodge
Author: Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Journal and Proceedings
Author: Asiatic Society of Bengal
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
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Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Author: Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Includes indexes to Numismatic supplements.
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Includes indexes to Numismatic supplements.
The History of Ancient Art
Author: Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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