The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science

In-depth interviews on history and philosophy of science, focused on primary research, mechanisms, and falsifiable claims; fills a clear gap.

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The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science 0827

India's Nuclear Physics Was Not a Prelude to the Bomb: Postwar State Involvement Was the Watershed

India's early nuclear physics moved in step with Europe and America; the real watershed was the state stepping in after the war. Reading it backwards from the 1974 test only obscures how the TIFR model damaged universities and the wider scientific system.

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