GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

INDIAN GEOGRAPHY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
India’s first nuclear test was conducted in-
A
Champaran
B
Pokhran
C
Jawahar sagar
D
Chickmagular
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Operation Smiling Buddha or Operation Happy Krishna (MEA designation: Pokhran-I) was the assigned code name of India’s first successful nuclear bomb test on 18 May 1974.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Thar Desert in the state of Rajasthan where the nuclear site, the Pokhran Test Range, is located.

Detailed explanation-3: -The tests were initiated on 11 May 1998, under the assigned code name Operation Shakti, with the detonation of one fusion and two fission bombs.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was on May 18, 1974, that India tested its first nuclear bomb successfully in Rajasthan’s Pokhran.

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