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List of nuclear weapons tests of India; Information; Country: India: Test site: Pokhran Test Range, Rajasthan: Period: May 1974 – May 1998: Number of tests: 4 (6 Devices fired) Test type: Underground tests (underground, underground shaft) Device type: Fission and Fusion: Max. yield: 45 kt; Scale down of 200 kt model
All nuclear testing, of any level, was forbidden under the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) (which has not entered into force), but there is controversy over whether the preparatory commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) or the Treaty Organization itself will be able to detect sufficiently small events ...
After 24 years, India publicly announced five further nuclear tests on May 11 and May 13, 1998. The official number of Indian nuclear tests is six, conducted under two different code-names and at different times. May 18, 1974: Operation Smiling Buddha (type: implosion, plutonium and underground).
Nuclear monitoring can be done remotely or during onsite inspections of nuclear facilities. Data exploitation results in characterization of nuclear weapons, reactors, and materials. A number of systems detect and monitor the world for nuclear explosions, as well as nuclear materials production. [1]
India possesses nuclear weapons and previously developed chemical weapons.Although India has not released any official statements about the size of its nuclear arsenal, recent estimates suggest that India has 172 nuclear weapons [4] and has produced enough weapons-grade plutonium for up to 200 nuclear weapons. [10]
A new study sheds light on declining health in India, with cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and mental health disorders at "critical levels."
In the late 1940s, the United States began to develop the capability to detect atmospheric testing using air sampling; this system was able to detect the first Soviet test in 1949. [30] Over the next decade, this system was improved, and a network of seismic monitoring stations was established to detect underground tests. [30]
Nuclear test detection experiments are designed to improve the capabilities to detect, locate, and identify nuclear detonations, in particular, to monitor compliance with test-ban treaties. In the United States these tests are associated with Operation Vela Uniform before the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty stopped all nuclear testing among ...