Atmospheric testing designates explosions that take place in the atmosphere generally these have occurred as devices detonated on towers balloons barges islands or dropped from airplanes and also those only buried far enough to intentionally create a surface breaking. Nuclear weapons tests have historically been divided into four categories reflecting the medium or location of the test. The united states the soviet union united kingdom france china india.
This has been done on test sites on land or waters owned controlled or leased from the owners by one of the eight nuclear nations. Nuclear weapons testing is the act of experimentally and deliberately firing one or more nuclear devices in a controlled manner pursuant to a military scientific or technological goal. In the mid 1950s india acquired dual use technologies under the atoms for peace non proliferation program which aimed to encourage the civil use of nuclear technologies in exchange for assurances that they would not be used for military purposes.
India s nuclear weapons program was started at the bhabha atomic research center in trombay. The first atomic bomb 12 seconds after explosion on july 16 1945. India and pakistan both stopped after the sixth nuclear test but that doesn t make either a non nuclear power lee said.
On may 11 1998 india successfully detonated the shakti 1 nuclear bomb at the indian army s pokhran test range in rajasthan as part of the indian army s pokhran test range in rajasthan. This latest paradigm shift by the united states allows india to conduct more nuclear testing to assess the design of its thermonuclear weapon which it claimed to have detonated on may 11 1998 in. Pokhran i was also the first confirmed nuclear weapons test by a nation outside the five permanent members of.
The bomb was detonated on the army base pokhran test range ptr in rajasthan by the indian army under the supervision of several key indian generals. Pokhran i was the assigned code name of india s first successful nuclear bomb test on 18 may 1974. Smiling buddha mea designation.
3 test series. May 1974 may 1998. Pokhran test range rajasthan.
List of nuclear weapons tests of india.
Nuclear bomb test in india. 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 the second instance of nuclear testing conducted by india. The first test code named smiling buddha was conducted in may 1974. The tests achieved their main objective of giving india the capability to build fission and thermonuclear weapons.
India s nuclear test series consists in a pair of series. Pokhran i and pokhran ii. Pokhran i was a single nuclear test conducted in 1974.
Pokhran i was a single nuclear test conducted in 1974. Pokhran i and pokhran ii. India s nuclear test series consists in a pair of series.
The tests achieved their main objective of giving india the capability to build fission and thermonuclear weapons. The first test code named smiling buddha was conducted in may 1974. It was the second instance of nuclear testing conducted by india.
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.
