The study is distinctly different from the normally available literature on the subject. The book is an attempt to go into both the policy and programme aspects of India's Nuclear development and factors influencing the India-United States of America Civil Nuclear Deal.

It being with examination of the various national choices of nuclear policies involving consideration of diverse and often mutually conflicting objectives. It also analyses the growth and development of institutional infrastructure for the development of nuclear energy in India and also deals in some details nuclear technology development for peaceful purposes and economics of nuclear technology for power production in the context of energy crisis. finally it analyses the responses of the successive Indian governments to various international pressures on nuclear issues and attempt is made to perceive the potentialities of the nuclear policy with regard to economics growth of India-United States of America Civil Nuclear Deal, its implications for the international security.