President Ram Nath Kovind today greeted the scientific community on National Technology Day (May 11, 2019) marking the anniversary of the Pokhran nuclear Tests of 1998.
Operation Shakti:
Pokhran-II (a.k.a Operation Shakti-98) is the name assigned to the series of five nuclear bomb test explosions conducted by India at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in May 1998.
On May 11, 1998, India carried out three nuclear tests. Two days later, India carried out two more tests. Of the five detonations, the first was a fusion bomb and the remaining four were fission bombs.
Subsequently, the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee declared India a full-fledged nuclear state.
It was the second Indian nuclear test; the first test, code-named Smiling Buddha, was conducted in 1974.
The key scientists behind the triumph of ‘Operation Shakti’ were APJ Abdul Kalam, R Chidambaram, K Santhanam and Anil Kakodkar. The three top politicians in the NDA Government who decided to conduct the tests were Prime Minister AB Vajpayee; Defence Minister George Fernandes and Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh.
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