What the records say
- When
- 18 May 1974
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 20
- Where
- Pokhran
- Coordinates
- 26.90° N, 71.70° E
- Yield kt
- 0–20
- Type
- shaft
- Purpose
- peaceful nuclear explosion
- Body wave magnitude
- 5
- Reported by
- UGS
5 sources record it
- Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Nuclear weapons testing: Under Project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, becoming the 6th nation to do so”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “premier essai nucléaire indien réalisé à Pokharan, dans le désert du Rajasthan”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en India, en el marco del proyecto Buda sonriente, India detona su primera bomba atómica, siendo la sexta nación con poder nuclear”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “印度进行首次核实验——微笑的佛陀。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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