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Operation Smiling Buddha

Operation Smiling Buddha or Operation Happy Krishna was the assigned code name of India's first successful nuclear bomb test on 18 May 1974. The bomb was detonated on the army base Pokhran Test Range, in Rajasthan, by the Indian Army under the... Wikipedia
Location: Pokhran
Date: May 18, 1974
Max. yield: 8–10 kilotons of TNT (33–42 TJ)
Number of tests: 1