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ISBN | 9789388754903 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Bib. Info | xvi, 256p.; 23cm. |
Product Weight | 450 gms. |
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Space, the final frontier. As nations attempt to secure strategic and military influence over adversaries, it is beyond the earths skies that they look. Superpowers such as the US, Russia, France, the UK and China have had robust space programmes since the end of the Second World War. India joined the race a little later, with research activities intended strictly for civilian use. However, Chinas stealthy Anti-Satellite Weapon Test (ASAT) in 2007 initiated a debate about space security in India, surrounded as it is by rogue nations that send out terror threats to its existence. Understanding Indias Approach to Space Security is a deeply revelatory history of how Indias space programme gradually grew to emerge as an important player in space weaponisation. In his groundbreaking new book, Dr Bharath Gopalaswamy examines both the ethicality of using space assets as well as Indias technical and political options to defend and expand them.