From Fission to Fusion provides an insider’s view of breakthrough science. Dr. M.R. Srinivasan explains the birth and development of India’s atomic-energy programme, which grew with his own career from a senior research officer in the 1950s to the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy (1987-90). This engrossing memoir explains how a team comprising India’s leading physicists, chemists, engineers, ...