Operation Smiling Buddha

Operation Smiling Buddha

50 years since India’s first Nuclear test

  • Code name for India’s 1st Nuclear test
  • Held in – 1974
  • Carried out at – Pokhran, Rajasthan
  • Significance – India became the 1st nation to conduct a nuclear test apart from the 5 permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (P-5).
  • Operation Shakti – In 1998, India conducted a series of nuclear tests again in Pokhran by the code-named Operation Shakti
  • Response to the test – In 1975, Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) was established following the explosion.
    • It comprises 48 states that have voluntarily agreed to coordinate their export controls to non-nuclear-weapon states.
    • It governs the transfers of civilian nuclear material and nuclear-related equipment and technology
  • Building and maintaining a credible minimum deterrent.
  • A posture of “No First Use”,nuclear weapons will only be used in retaliation against a nuclear attack
  • Non-use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapon states.
  • Nuclear retaliatory attacks can only be authorised by the civilian political leadership.
  • Commitment to the goal of a nuclear weapon free world

Source: The Indian Express


Previous Year Question

India is an important member of the ‘International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor’. If this experiment succeeds, what is the immediate advantage for India?

[UPSC Civil Service Exam – 2016 Prelims]

(a) It can use thorium in place of uranium for power generation
(b) It can attain a global role in satellite navigation
(c) It can drastically improve the efficiency of its fission reactors in power generation
(d) It can build fusion reactors for power generation

Answer: (d)


Practice Question

Consider the following:

  1. Building and maintaining a credible minimum deterrent.
  2. Nuclear weapons will only be used in retaliation against a nuclear attack
  3. Non-use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapon states.

How many of the above are part of India’s Nuclear Doctrine?

 
 
 
 

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