1. Nuclear tests Pokhran Nuclear test siteIndia conducted first successful nuclear test was called Operation Smiling Buddha with a yield (8 kiloton) equivalent to half of the energy generated by Little Boy (atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima).
The second nuclear test was known as Operation Shakti (5 tests) in 1998.
Operation Shakti (Pokhran-II) was India's first fusion bomb with an estimated yield of 58 kilotons.
One of the testing shafts of the 1998 nuclear tests by India was code named “White House.”
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