Bharat 🇮🇳 on Instagram: "India’s nucl*ar program reached a defining moment in May 1998 during the government of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, when the country carried out a series of underground nucle*r tests at Pokhran in Rajasthan. These tests, code-named Operation Shakti, were conducted between May 11 and 13, 1998. They were a follow-up to the earlier “Smiling Buddha” test in 1974 but marked the first time India openly declared itself a nucl*ar weapo*s state. The decision was made am

Bharat 🇮🇳 on Instagram: "Pokhran-II (Operation Shakti) was a series of five nucl*ar we@pon tests conducted by India in May 1998. The bombs were detonated at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan. It was the second instance of nucl*ar testing conducted by India, after the first test, Smiling Buddha, in May 1974. Following were the main personnel involved in the testing: Chief Coordinators : A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, scientific adviser to the defence minister and head of the DRDO R. Chidam