Pokhran-II | Wikipedia audio article
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Pokhran-II


00:01:14 1 India's nuclear bomb project
00:02:41 1.1 Post-Smiling Buddha
00:05:03 2 Political momentum: 1988–1998
00:07:05 2.1 1998 Indian general elections
00:09:20 2.2 Preparations for the test
00:11:57 3 Nuclear weapon designs and development
00:12:08 3.1 Development and test teams
00:13:29 3.2 Movement and logistics
00:16:31 3.3 Specifications and detonation
00:18:13 3.4 Announcement
00:18:39 4 Reactions to tests
00:18:49 4.1 Domestic reactions
00:20:11 4.2 International reactions
00:20:20 4.2.1 United States
00:21:44 4.2.2 Canada, Japan, and other countries
00:22:22 4.2.3 China
00:24:28 4.2.4 Pakistan
00:27:15 4.3 U.N. sanctions
00:27:55 4.3.1 Effects on Indian economy
00:28:36 5 Legacy
00:29:09 6 In popular culture
00:29:27 7 See also



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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.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, with the detonation of one fusion and two fission bombs. On 13 May 1998, two additional fission devices were detonated, and the Indian government led by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee shortly convened a press conference to declare India a full-fledged nuclear state. The tests resulted in a variety of sanctions against India by a number of major states, including Japan and the United States.Many names have been assigned to these tests; originally these were collectively called Operation Shakti–98, and the five nuclear bombs were designated Shakti-I through to Shakti-V. More recently, the operation as a whole has come to be known as Pokhran II, and the 1974 explosion as Pokhran-I.