Question

What is the code name of the first Nuclear test of India?
1. Chagai 1­-1
2. Smiling Buddha
3. Project 596
4. Shakti 1 – 1

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Smiling Buddha

The Correct Answer is "Smiling Buddha".

• The day was May 18 in the year 1974. On this day, the Indian government conducted its first nuclear test in the deserts of Pokhran, Rajasthan making it a peaceful nuclear explosion.
• India’s first successful nuclear test was performed here in 1974.
• Nuclear reactors present here are best in the world in terms of their safety level.
• It has a 1,080 MW capacity.
• It has six pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) units. 
• 'Smiling Buddha' (MEA designation: Pokhran-I) was the assigned code name of India's first successful nuclear bomb test.
• With Smiling Buddha, India became the world's sixth nuclear power after the United States, Soviet Union, Britain, France, and China to successfully test out a nuclear bomb.     

 

Chagai-I :

• Chagai-I is the code name of five simultaneous underground nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan at 15:15 hrs PST on 28 May 1998.
• The tests were performed at Ras Koh Hills in the Chagai District of Balochistan Province.

 

Project 596 :

• Project 596, was the first nuclear weapons test conducted by the People's Republic of China, detonated on 16 October 1964, at the Lop Nur test site.
• It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device made from weapons-grade uranium enriched in a gaseous diffusion plant in Lanzhou.

 

Shakti 1 – 1 :

• On 27 March 2019, India tested an anti-satellite weapon during an operation code-named Mission Shakti.
• The target of the test was a satellite present in a low Earth orbit, which was hit with a kinetic kill vehicle.