SMITH Chris <br/><br/>
India's ad hoc arsenal:  direction or drift in defence policy? 

 - Oxford, UK:  Oxford University Press,  1994 
 - 267p. 
<br/><br/> Examines the rationale behind India's defence procurement decisions, and in particular its nuclear weapons programme, concluding that the quest for great power status rather than the real needs of national security have been at the heart of political decision making. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>019829168X (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>DEFENCE EXPENDITURE<br/>DEFENCE INDUSTRY<br/>DEFENCE POLICY<br/>DEFENCE PROCUREMENT<br/>INDIA<br/>NUCLEAR WARFARE