The top story of the century -- Block rivalry and the high noon of nuclearism -- Hesitant and new : disarmament momentum after the Cold War -- The road to Pokharan II and Chagai. "Safe" tests and popular doubts. The evolution of India's nuclear policy -- South Asia in the nuclear trap : the causes and consequences of India and Pakistan going nuclear. No peace in the "Land of the Buddha"? Mine is bigger than yours : the Indian and Pakistani test yields -- Indefensible arms : the ethics of war and nuclear weapons. Bombing Bombay : more devastating than Hiroshima? Toys for boys : how nuclearism works against women -- An inaffordable arsenal : the cost of a "credible minimal deterrent" -- The deterrence delusion : why nuclear weapons don't generate security. Ramshackle deterrence -- From abstinence, to ambiguity, to the nuclear blasts -- Challenges to the global nuclear order : whose crisis? whose dilemma? Where are the missiles? -- The struggle for nuclear weapons abolition. Marxists and the bomb.