Q. Which of the following nuclear test(s) was/were conducted by India?
Smiling Buddha
Operation Shakti
Chagai-I
Project 596
Choose the correct answer using the codes given below: Answer:
Only 1 & 2
Notes:
'Smiling Buddha' (MEA designation: Pokhran-I) was the assigned code name of India's first successful nuclear bomb test. With the Smiling Buddha, India became the world's sixth nuclear power after the United States, Soviet Union, Britain, France and China to successfully test out a nuclear bomb. Pokhran-Iwas also the first confirmed nuclear weapons test by a nation outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Pokhran-II consisted of five detonations, the first of which was a fusion bomb while the remaining four were fission bombs. The tests were initiated on 11 May 1998, under the assigned code name Operation Shakti.
Project 596, was the first nuclear weapons test conducted by the People's Republic of China, detonated on 16 October 1964, at the Lop Nur test site. It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device made from weapons-grade uranium.
Chagai-I is the code name of five simultaneous underground nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan on 28 May 1998. The tests were performed at Ras Koh Hills in the Chagai District of Balochistan Province. Chagai-I was Pakistan's first public test of nuclear weapons.