COVER STORY: The cost of going nuclear by Bina Shah Edited by Pervez Hoodbhoy Oxford University Press, Karachi ISBN 978-0-19-906833-3

<strong>Reviewed by Bina Shah </strong>

A collection of essays, Confronting the Bomb: Pakistani and Indian Scientists Speak Out, edited by Pervez Hoodbhoy focuses on the ramifications — political, historical, and moral — of the nuclear bomb in India and Pakistan. Essays by dissident Indians and Pakistani scientists outline how, while the rest of the world has recognised both the futility and fatality of the nuclear arms race, the politicians, generals, and oligarchs of India

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