Prime ministers & their pros
In a small office in South Block, in the summer of 1948, a Cambridge-trained physicist told India’s prime minister that the new country needed an atomic energy programme, and that the Indian Civil Service, designed for revenue collection and famine relief, could not run one. Nehru had nothing to gain politically from agreeing. He agreed anyway. The Atomic Energy Commission was placed under his own office.
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