India’s nuclear program is often conceived as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. But a new book by the scholar Jayita Sarkar, Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War, challenges the conventional wisdom, narrating a global story of India’s nuclear program during its first forty years. Sarkar joined Milan Vaishnav last week on Grand Tamasha, a weekly podcast on Indian politics and policy jointly produced by HT and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.