Bhabha’s legacy: Atoms for peace and war
DOI: 10.1063/PT.3.4241
Leslie and Chowdhury reply : Homi Bhabha clearly designed Trombay with nuclear weapons as more than an afterthought, though Bhabha himself remained ambivalent about a nuclear-armed India. The CIRUS heavy-water reactor and its successors produced weapons-grade plutonium that supplied the material for India’s first atomic bomb, and the plutonium itself was extracted in the facility designed by Edward Durell Stone for the Trombay campus. In India—as in France, Israel, and every other member of the nuclear fraternity—atoms for peace could never be entirely separated from atoms for war.
More about the authors
Stuart W. Leslie, (swleslie@jhu.edu) Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Indira Chowdhury, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru, India.
