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How India is becoming a nuclear weapons powerhouse
India’s nuclear arsenal has always been modest—large enough to deter China and Pakistan from a first strike, and not ...
Fifty-two years ago, India detonated a nuclear device in Rajasthan's Thar desert, codenamed 'Smiling Buddha'. This event, coinciding with Buddha Purnima, marked India's entry into the nuclear club.
India today marked 52nd anniversary of historic first nuclear bomb test held at the Army field range in Pokaran of this desert district in Rajasthan.
Smiling Buddha, India first nuclear test completes 51 years. Codenamed 'Smiling Buddha' was launched on May 18, 1974 by then ...
Two more tests followed on May 13, formally declaring India a nuclear weapons state and signalling that New Delhi was prepared to defy global pressure in pursuit of strategic autonomy.
Unlike Pakistan and Iran, Turkey can develop its nuclear capabilities behind NATO’s Article V protections that define an attack on one as an attack on all. Pakistan long dominated Indian nuclear ...
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