Three books offer a comprehensive history of the Indian nuclear weapons program. George Perkovich, India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation (University of California Press, 1999), is a careful account that draws upon an extensive interview with the Indian participants; Itty Abraham, The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb (London: Zed Books, 1998), places the program in the context of India's search for a national identity; and Raj Chengappa, Weapons of Peace: The Secret Story of India's Quest to Be a Nuclear Power (New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2000), contains rich anecdotal
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