A Shield Against the Bomb: Ballistic Missile Defence in a Nuclear Environment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789388161435)

A. Vinod Kumar is Associate Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi, and a Visiting Faculty at the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies (IFPS), University of Calcutta. His research interests include nuclear policy issues, missile defence and India's relations with the great powers. Kumar's first book titled India and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime - The Perennial Outlier was published by the Cambridge University Press in April 2014. He has written extensively in acclaimed publications including Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The National Interest, Strategic Analysis, South Asian Survey, Asia Times, Huffington Post, and Vayu Aerospace Review, among others. Kumar was earlier a journalist, a broadcaster and a first-generation online journalist, and was part of several mass-media ventures including as Executive Editor of South Asia Monitor. He was also a Fellow at Indian Pugwash. Kumar is currently spearheading an archival mining effort to trace India's nuclear and foreign policy history.