Out of the Nuclear Shadow edited by Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian, Zed Books,
£16.95, ISBN 1842770594
Nuclear weapons “bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our
brains”, says celebrated Indian author Arundhati Roy. They pervade our politics,
suffuse our thinking and may determine our fate.
Roy wants rid of them, as do the other 42 Indian and Pakistani writers who
contributed to Out of the Nuclear Shadow, an eclectic collection of
anti-nuclear essays. Including works by Mahatma Ghandi and Eqbal Ahmad, it
exposes the cold war doctrine of nuclear deterrence as a myth, and shows that…
