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    The Pokhran-II tests were a series of five nuclear bomb test explosions conducted by India at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in May 1998. It was...
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    Pokhran (official spelling Pokaran; Hindi: पोकरण) is a town and a municipality located 112 km east of Jaisalmer city in the Jaisalmer district of the...
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    Smiling Buddha (redirect from Pokhran-I)
    Pokhran-I) was the assigned code name of India's first successful nuclear bomb test on 18 May 1974. The bomb was detonated on the army base Pokhran Test...
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  • India's nuclear test series consists of a pair of series: Pokhran I and Pokhran II. Pokhran I was a single nuclear test conducted in 1974. Map this section's...
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    May, 1998 India conducted five underground nuclear tests – Pokhran-II, following the Pokhran-I test of 1974. These tests established India as a nuclear...
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    India and this was led by the anger of United States against India due to Pokhran-II Nuclear test series and supported in the favour of Pakistan. At that time...
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    has conducted nuclear weapons tests in a pair of series namely Pokhran I and Pokhran II. India is a member of three multilateral export control regimes...
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  • Shaukeens (2014). His film Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran (2018) is based on the nuclear tests named Pokhran-II. "'Tere Bin Laden' director Abhishek Sharma's...
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    Thane's ‘lover's paradise’. Upvan lake forms a junction of the Pokhran I and Pokhran II roads. Once, the major source of water for the entire Thane city...
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    more than 45 Kilotons might not have been contained fully. After the Pokhran-II tests, Rajagopala Chidambaram, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission...
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    played a pivotal organisational, technical, and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India...
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    achieve it. Its timing was a direct response to India's second nuclear test Pokhran-II, on 11 and 13 May 1998. These tests by Pakistan and India resulted in...
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    president. During his tenure as prime minister, India carried out the Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998. Vajpayee sought to improve diplomatic relations...
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    utility". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 30 June 2019. "20 years after Pokhran II, India makes giant nuclear leap". hindustantimes.com/. 6 November 2018...
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    budget restrictions, and sanctions placed on India following the 1998 Pokhran-II nuclear tests. The name comes from a Sanskrit origin word dhruv which...
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    programme The Emergency Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) Contemporary History of India (1947–present) Economic liberalisation Pokhran-II COVID-19 pandemic...
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    Anil Kakodkar and Dr. R. Chidambaram on Pokhran-II tests". pib.nic.in. Retrieved July 26, 2019. "PokhranII tests were fully successful; given India...
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    ISSN 1073-6700. Rai, Ajai K. (2009). India's nuclear diplomacy after Pokhran II. Foreword by Ved Prakash Malik. Delhi: Longman. ISBN 978-8131726686. OCLC 313061697...
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  • the 1991 economic crisis, development was delayed. In 1999, following Pokhran-II, then Defence Minister George Fernandes approved Project Seabird to pursue...
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    nuclear weapons program; he coordinated test preparation for the Pokhran-I (1975) and Pokhran-II (1998). Previously served as the principal scientific adviser...
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    broke with India's historical strategy of avoiding it and authorised Pokhran-II, a series of five nuclear tests in 1998. The tests came soon after Pakistan...
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    the original on 2 May 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2012. "20 years after Pokhran II, India makes giant nuclear leap". Hindustan Times. 6 November 2018. Archived...
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    the Kala Chitta Range. Pokhran-II (Operation Shakti): On 11 May 1998 India detonated another five nuclear devices at Pokhran Test Range. With jubilation...
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    Harvard University, among others. India and weapons of mass destruction Pokhran-II – 1998 series of Indian nuclear weapons tests Smiling Buddha – India's...
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    adopted a "no first use" policy after its second series of nuclear tests, Pokhran-II, in 1998. In August 1999, the Indian government released a draft of the...
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    This period saw a downturn in Indo-Japan relations following India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests as well as a recovery after a visit to India by then Japanese...
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    Story of Pokhran (Atom, 2018) – Indian historical drama film by Abhishek Sharma based on Pokhran-II, the Indian nuclear weapons test at Pokhran in 1998...
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    programme The Emergency Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) Contemporary History of India (1947–present) Economic liberalisation Pokhran-II COVID-19 pandemic...
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