Weapons Of Peace Raj Chengappa Pdf Jun 2026

The title itself captures the central irony of the nuclear age. Chengappa explores how a nation born of non-violence (Mahatma Gandhi’s ethos) came to embrace the most destructive technology on earth. The book argues that for India, nuclear weapons were not instruments of aggression, but tools of survival and stability. In a hostile neighborhood, surrounded by nuclear-armed neighbors (China and Pakistan), the bomb was viewed by the establishment as the ultimate guarantor of peace—a deterrent that would prevent war rather than wage it.