Smiling Buddha

Indira Gandhi took responsibility for a nuclear explosion at Pokhra, India on May 18, 1974. She claimed it to be a peaceful nuclear weapons test, codenamed Smiling Buddha. She explained that it had been so top-secret, that she herself had maintained tight control of all preparations, and even the Indian Defence Minister Jagjivan Ram had not been provided with any knowledge of this test and came to learn of it only after it was conducted.

In reality, it was Gary Seven’s destruction of the underground base for Project Chrysalis that was the source of the nuclear explosion, which left the Indian government scrambling to explain to the global community the sudden nuclear explosion, and caused tension with China and Pakistan. (TOS novel | The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh Volume 1)

External link

 * Smiling Buddha(The Pokhran explosion) at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 * Pokhran II article at at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia