This is the first comprehensive book on India’s nuclear Programme—peaceful applications as well as the nuclear weapon option. The book gives an overview of the Indian nuclear scenario—the confluence of Nehru and Bhabha which laid a sound foundation; an umbrella organization for nuclear technology acquisitions, freed from bureaucratic tentacles, where science was in command; building nuclear infrastructure and a chain of R&D centers for advanced nuclear technologies, round which India’s nuclear edifice has been built. Distinct, and characteristic of the Indian nuclear Programme, is its innovative, indigenous road mastering an advanced technology, and building a chain of nuclear projects despite the sanctions regime and a veritable cordon sanitaire imposed by the Big Powers, first in 1974, then again in 1998, and this amidst the limitations of a developing nation’s economy. A fascinating chapter of building nuclear capability, that looks like a dream come true, is unfolded here. The book gives an insight into what it calls disentangling advanced science and technology from political manipulations, nuclear diplomacy, and the games played by the Big Powers to impede India’s nuclear quest. The Pakistan factor, for instance, deployed by the Western powers to counter Indian nuclear capability. Revealed here is the full juicy story of the clandestine multi-million dollar deals of Dr A.Q. Khan, a flourishing nuclear black market, hitched to the Kahuta uranium enrichment facility. All this right under the nose of CIA and 12 Western intelligence agencies—turning on a Nelson’s eye to the biggest clandestine nuclear deals of our times. Does this sound like ‘non-proliferation’?