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  2. List of nuclear weapons tests of India - Wikipedia

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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

  3. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre - Wikipedia

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    BARC is a multi-disciplinary research centre with extensive infrastructure for advanced research and development covering the entire spectrum of nuclear science, chemical engineering, material sciences and metallurgy, electronic instrumentation, biology and medicine, supercomputing, high-energy physics and plasma physics and associated research for Indian nuclear programme and related areas.

  4. Category:Indian nuclear test sites - Wikipedia

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    Sites of nuclear weapons testing which were used by India. Pages in category "Indian nuclear test sites" This category contains only the following page.

  5. Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research - Wikipedia

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    Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) is one of India's premier nuclear research centres. It is the second largest establishment of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), next to Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), located at Kalpakkam, 80 km south of Chennai, India. [1]

  6. National Cancer Control Programme - Wikipedia

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    Since its creation, the programme has had many major accomplishments such as the establishment of the National Cancer Registry Programme in 1982. [3] Even though the registry does not cover the whole population affected by cancer, it gives the most updated information on the burden of cancer in the country and informs policies enacted to fight against cancer such as provisions for additional ...

  7. List of nuclear weapons tests - Wikipedia

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    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).

  8. Nuclear weapons testing - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Underground nuclear weapons testing - Wikipedia

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    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]