GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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: -R. Chidambaram on Pokhran-II tests. India conducted five nuclear tests of advanced weapon designs on 11 and 13 May 1998 at the Pokhran range in Rajasthan Desert. The first three detonations took place simultaneously at 15:45 h.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pokhran-II was the series of five nuclear bomb test explosions that were conducted by India in May 1998 at the Indian Army’s Pokhran Test Range. This was the second attempt of India that turned out to be successful after the first test, code-named Smiling Buddha, was conducted in May 1974.

Detailed explanation-4: -What happened? India conducted a series of nuclear bomb tests at the Pokhran Test Range of the Indian Army starting 11 May 1998.