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Contents Acknowledgments · ix 1 Introduction: Nuclear Power and Atomic Publics / Itty Abraham · 1 2 Fevered with Dreams of the Future: The Coming of the Atomic Age to Pakistan / Zia Mian · 20 3 India’s Nuclear Enclave and the Practice of Secrecy / M. V. Ramana · 41 4 The Social Life of a Bomb: India and the Ontology of an “Overpopulated” Society / Sankaran Krishna · 68 5 Pride and Proliferation: Pakistan’s Nuclear Psyche after A. Q. Khan / Ammara Durrani · 89 6 The Politics of Death: The Antinuclear Imaginary in India / Srirupa Roy · 113 7 Pakistan’s Atomic Publics: Survey Results / Haider Nizamani · 133 8 Gods, Bombs, and the Social Imaginary / Raminder Kaur · 150 9 Nuclearization and Pakistani Popular Culture since 1998 / Iftikhar Dadi · 173 10 Guardians of the Nuclear Myth: Politics, Ideology, and India’s Strategic Community / Karsten Frey · 195 List of Contributors · 213 Index · 215 ...

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