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Is it Pokhran or Pokharan? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.94.119.237 ( talk) 19:20, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
I have an article about how the CIA was fooled. I will try to get the online version of it. That article contains a lot of information on the condcution of the test and how the world was kept unknown about this test. Chanakyathegreat 03:31, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Reason: [1]. -- Bhadani 15:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
The caption of the dust cloud photo is incorrect. Incidentally this photo was used on the cover of George Perkovich's book. The photograph was taken from the Indian Air Force's Bombing Range 2 at Pohkaran, not the nuclear test site. The clouds are conventional explosions from a firepower demonstration. The air target bullseye can be seen in the photo. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.6.227.169 ( talk) 10:31, 7 September 2007 (UTC) The video of that particular target can be seen here during VayuShakti-1999 firepower demo at the IAF bombing range #2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47CSHFURYEw —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.6.225.5 ( talk) 22:57, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
I have rolled back the latest edit as the last war (Kargil War) was fought without any formal declaration of war as defined and recognized under international law by the warring nations. -- Bhadani ( talk) 14:44, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
"The most vehement reaction to India's nuclear test was Pakistan's. Pakistan was the nation whose security would be most affected by India's nuclear arsenal. Pakistan perceived (and still perceives) India as a threat to its existence. India and Pakistan had three wars with each other. Great ire was raised in Pakistan which issued a severe statement blaming India for instigating a nuclear arms race in the region. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed that his country would give a suitable reply to the Indians. Pakistan wished to exploit the world's negative reaction to the Indian tests. It chose to highlight the problem of Kashmir and portray India as an aggressive and expansionist state that wished to acquire nuclear weapons to intimidate Pakistan and threaten it militarily. Nawaz Sharif declared that India which was headed by a Hindu nationalist government was bent upon undoing Pakistan and exerting its hegemony throughout South Asia from Afghanistan to Myanmar. Envoys were dispatched to various world capitals to highlight Pakistan's stand and win the world's support and sympathy for Pakistan. The Pakistani public were also of the opinion that their country had to carry out similar tests in order to allay the fears in the minds of the people about India."
This paragram IMHO should be rewritten in a more professional structure, should also tone down the nationalist sentiments... 60.54.58.91 12:37, 29 October 2007 (UTC) Agreed. The whole article is biased, and should be tagged as such. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.50.22.218 ( talk) 18:51, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
Please cite sources and copyedit the article to ensure that it is written in a clear, coherent tone with a neutral point of view, so speaks rohith. 21:56, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
The text does not talk about India wanting a seat in the security council and said to sign the npt, if they do get one. Also in 1971 the US employed the USS Enterprise with Nuclear weapons on board to the gulf of bengalen and India saw this as a threat. sadly i do not have the time to edit including references, but it can be found in many scholarly books that both things were a big part of it.
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12:27, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
I am concerned that some of the sentences in the (unreferenced) Devices section have been directly copied from [2] -- Limulus ( talk) 21:10, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
A ref that may help; see "Cracking The Pokhran Tests" section. -- Limulus ( talk) 22:11, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
Rajat Pandit (28 Aug 2009). "Forces gung-ho on N-arsenal". The Times Of India. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
I just identified that the entire "Production and preparation of devices" section was a copyvio of [3] tagged as such for now as per WP:Copyright violations -- Limulus ( talk) 15:49, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Note: Devices and Production sections mentioned above appear to have been added by an anon user [4] mostly in three edits on 19 July 2007: [5] [6] [7] -- Limulus ( talk) 19:41, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
"Detonation" section is a copyvio of NWA. -- Limulus ( talk) 18:09, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
"Preparations for the test" is a copyvio of a wire article that has been mirrored on [9] -- Limulus ( talk) 18:09, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
I am also now concerned about the use of non-free images (which are basically from NWA anyway). I don't think we can justify a gallery as has been done and unless you object, I think it should be removed. -- Limulus ( talk) 23:53, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
the same content was mentioned twice though this is not the main article on Pakistan's nuclear tests. Hence i consider it correct to mention it only once at the appropriate subsection which is "Reactions to the tests -international - Pakistan" dBigXray ( talk) 02:52, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
'Shakti' is a word that is of Indian origin and means might or power. It has no religious context and it would be very inappropriate to use it in the manner herein.
Please make appropriate changes. ____________
On 18 May 1974, India exploded its first nuclear device in an operation code named Smiling Buddha (Pokhran-I). After about a quarter century, on 11 May 1998, Operation Shakti (Pokhran-II) was carried out; Shakti was the codename for the nuclear devices that were detonated. The term Shakti (Hindi: शक्ति) refers to the cosmic energy of Hinduism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Himanshusachi ( talk • contribs) 17:34, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
This article has little discussion of the yield of Shakti , saying only "Shakti I – A thermonuclear device yielding 56 kt, but designed for up to 200 kt". Compare that to [14]] which says "The yield of India's hydrogen bomb remains highly debatable among the Indian science community and the international scholars...". That latter seems more reliable; the ref given here for 56 kt ( http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/India/IndiaShakti.html) leads to http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/India/IndiaRealYields.html which indicates considerable disagreement William M. Connolley ( talk) 12:30, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
Carnegie (reliable source) makes clear arguments that the Shakti I test failed, and explains why. It even says: "late in 2009, a group of senior Indian nuclear scientists, including many who were actively involved in the weapons program, called upon their government to conduct an “in-depth analysis of our real capabilities,” given “the grave situation we are in regarding our Thermonuclear (H-bomb) capability,” with an eye to undertaking “resolute, speedy and comprehensive corrective action.”"
https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/07/18/india-pub-87397
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