Operation Smiling Buddha: All You Need to Know About India's 1st Nuclear Test in 1974; Top 10 Quotes

About 50 years ago, in a secret mission, India made history when it became the first country outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, to successfully test a nuclear bomb. With this, it became the sixth nuclear power in the world after the United States, the Soviet Union (now Russia), the United Kingdom, France, and China. This nuclear operation was named Operation Smiling Buddha. Today, it is known as the Pokhran-I nuclear test. On May 18, 1974, the Indian Army tested a nuclear explosion in a 107-meter-deep underground shaft at the Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan….