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	What Are the Real Yields of India's Tests?
		The first Indian test - Pokhran I or "Smiling Buddha" - was originally reported by the Indian AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) Chairman Homi Sethna on the day of the test to have had a yield of between 10 and 15 kilotons.
		Pokhran-I was slightly deeper than Palanquin and was barely contained, suggesting that the rock in which it was fired was roughly similar in strength to the rhyolite of Palanquin.
		Since the near surface of the Pokhran site is composed of loose material (sand and perhaps alluvium) that cannot cap chimney formation it seems unlikely that a 43 kt shot at 200 m could have avoided producing a subsidence crater.
	nuclearweaponarchive.org /India/IndiaRealYields.html (6788 words)

	ISANW Newsletter, No. 6
		Pokhran II (and the subsequent DND) is a distinct break from the above policy.
		The difference between Pokhran I and Pokhran II was the fact that on the latter occasion, the device was tested in a "weapons configuration".
		In the interregnum between Pokhran I and Pokhran II, the NPT and CTBT were debated and negotiated time after time, with the objective of providing a benchmark for disarmament.
	www.isanw.org /news/06 (3802 words)

	Avijit Pathak: From Pokhran to Ayodhya, Meaning of BJP's National Philosophy
		Yet, Pokhran has to be seen as a metaphor: the way technology - or to put it sharply, military technology - is allowed to colonize the spirit of science.
		At Pokhran we saw the celebration of this demonic technology; it had got nothing to do with the vision liberating science.
		But the unity of science and religion that Pokhran and Ayodhya symbolize, as we are arguing, is of a different kind.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/4119/pokhran.html (810 words)

	POKHRAN-II : Five Years later
		The fifth anniversary of Pokhran II, that had stunned the world and had resulted in sweeping global sanctions, has passed off without much fanfare - indicating that the nuclear issue has already retreated to the background.
		According to him, the real message from Pokhran and Chagai was the need for a global re-arrangement of power.
		Pokhran and Chagai dramatically raised the stakes in the standoff over Kashmir, one of the world's longest-running feuds.
	www.saag.org /papers7/paper690.html (2823 words)

	THE NUCLEAR TESTS From Hiroshima to Pokhran by Jean Dreze (1998)
		As in Pokhran, his call for world peace and the elimination of nuclear weapons was received with roaring applause.
		The Pokhran and Khetolai gatherings show that when people are adequately informed, their views on nuclear weapons are far less enthusiastic than what the survey suggests.
		The warm reception given to the Japanese delegation in Pokhran is not inconsistent with the possibility that many local residents consider the recent tests as being justified.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /sacw/saan/dreze.htm (1561 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Retired generals support Pokhran tests
		Pokhran emerged as a checkmate for the coercive potential of Chagai and must be visualised as a prudent measure of future insurance in the military context of China's four modernisations, said General (retired) Shankar Roychowdhury.
		Pakistan, on the other hand, has historically been a more intransigent adversary that has been trying to disrupt societal and communal stability, so essential for a multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural society like India, with the long-term objective of eroding national cohesion, and threatening the country with gradual dismemberment, the general said.
		In that sense the nuclear power plants at Trombay, Kalpakam or Narora and the smiles of the Buddha in 1974 and 1998 at Pokhran are complementary aspects of the same national enterprise,'' he added.
	www.rediff.com /news/1998/nov/10gen.htm (1081 words)

	'What wrong did this man do?'
		It was also in keeping with the character of the decision that within weeks the whole world could see the nuclear policy of the Government of the Hindu Right swing from jingoistic adventurism to virtual capitulation to the terms laid down by the enforcers of the DGNB, principally the United States.
		Whatever rationalisation the BJP and apologists of Indian nuclear weaponisation might have resorted to, Chagai was understood by objective observers everywhere as the answer to the destabilising Indian nuclear explosions: it is unlikely to have happened without Pokhran-II.
		Hence, to see the Pokhran tests as a natural culmination of India's nuclear policy from the 1950s is not only naive but harmful to the very basis of a secular democratic Indian state.
	www.thehindu.com /fline/fl1610/16100220.htm (5286 words)

	Navy
		Dr Iyengar exlained the composition of the basic fusion and fission bombs that were exploded in the Pokhran-I and II and the shape and mechanism of these devices in great detail with slides.
		Pokhran-I was a single device of 12 kilotons.
		One was of low yield probably 1 to 2 kilotons, the second was Pokhran-I type with 10 kiloton yield.
	www.indiadefence.com /lecture.htm (1822 words)

	BBC News \| S/W Asia \| Outcry over India's nuclear tests
		Experts in neighbouring countries have also warned that the blasts could have a destabilising effect in the region, which could trigger an arms race.
		The tests took place at a nuclear test ground in Pokhran in the northern desert state of Rajasthan, 550 kilometres (330 miles) south-west of New Delhi.
		Pokhran is only about 150 kilometres (93 miles) from Pakistan, with which India has fought three wars since the two countries' independence from Britain in 1947.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/s/w_asia/91148.stm (340 words)

	Pokharan, atomic power, Bhabha Atomic Research, Tarapur Atomic Power
		By contrast, the Pokhran blast was an ominously silent affair.
		Compared to the megatonne class of the superpowers, the Pokhran blast was something of a schoolboy’s cracker caper – roughly equivalent to one of the 20 kilotonne bombs that obliterated Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War.
		What is significant (about Pokhran) is that the a first experiment made by India was conducted deep under the earth without endangering life of any kind.
	www.indiaprofile.com /businessandindustry/atomicdevice.htm (1504 words)

	pokhran guide, pokhran travel, pokhran travel info, pokhran tours & travel, pokhran travel agent, pokhran travelagents ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Pokhran, at the junction of the Jaisalmer, Jodhpur and Bikaner roads and 110 km from Jaisalmer, is the site of yet another magnificent Rajasthani fortress.
		The sandstone fort rises from the desert and shelters a tangle of narrow streets lined by houses with balconies and walls decorated with parrots, elephants and Rajasthan’s inevitable peacocks.
		Pokhran was also the site of India’s nuclear test explosions.
	www.planetgypsy.com /destinations/india/rajasthan/pokhran.html (138 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Vir Sanghvi on the BJP's miscalculation on Pokhran II.
		As the Bharatiya Janata Party goes into the assembly election campaign, its leaders are talking about many things but when Pokhran is mentioned at all, it gets a supporting role; the days when it was the government's star achievement are clearly over.
		L K Advani declared at a press conference that the realities of power in the subcontinent had now changed and warned Pakistan to be careful.
		The consequence is that the recession will deepen, Pakistan will also become a nuclear weapons state and we'll have to sign an agreement promising the Americans that not only will we never do it again, but that no Indian government will ever be allowed to test a nuclear weapon in perpetuity.
	inhome.rediff.com /news/1998/nov/09vir.htm (1608 words)

	The force behind Pokhran, 1974
		Hand-picked by Dr Homi Bhabha, Ramanna put the country on the world nuclear map in a short time after his theory of nuclear fission was established between 1965 and 1968.
		The pinnacle of his glory, however, was India's first nuclear explosion at Pokhran, which took the world by storm.
		Born in 1925 at Tumkur, Karnataka, Ramanna graduated from the Madras University.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/sep/24obit.htm (480 words)

	Update on the yield of May 11-13, 1998 Nuclear Detonations at Pokhran
		His assumption that Pokhran I formed a subsidence crater is also not tenable.
		The difference between a shallow crater and a subsidence crater is that the crater radius in the latter is very nearly the same as cavity radius.
		For Pokhran I, the crater radius was 47 m compared to the cavity radius of 30 m.
	www.fas.org /news/india/1998/11/india-981100.htm (1915 words)

	INDOlink - Science & Technology - Unveiling Pokhran With Satellite Images
		This is the story of two Indian American scientists - a father and a son.
		The son was the first to blow the cover off preparations for India’s 1998 nuclear test at Pokhran – more than two years before it actually transpired.
		According to Gupta’s report for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Khetolai military range at Pokhran, where the tests were conducted, is an active military exercise and testing area.
	www.indolink.com /SciTech/fr082603-050759.php (2026 words)

	TNI Asia Europe Relations
		The nuclear tests conducted by India in Pokhran [popularly known as Pokhran II] in May 1998 shocked the world and much of India.
		Pokhran I, despite the claim that it was only a PNE, triggered off a nuclear arms race in South Asia, with India's traditional adversary Pakistan secretly concentrating efforts to build its own nuclear weapon as a deterrent to the Indian bomb.
		Every year since Pokhran II, there have been marches, demonstrations, exhibitions and meetings on Hiroshima day and on May 11th, the anniversary of Pokhran II.
	www.xs4all.nl /~tni/asem-seoul/004chenoy.htm (1106 words)

	A Holy Nuclear Temple at Pokharan ! Brahmins plan to build a Temple at Pokharan, the site of India's Nuclear Tests. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Dedicated to Shakti (the goddess of strength of power and strength), the temple, christened the `Shakti Peeth,' according to VHP general secretary Acharya Giriraj Kishore, would be constructed on a private land some 50 km from the site of the recent nuclear explosions.
		The VHP general secretary also lauded the Government for adopting a tough posture against Pakistan for its role in fomenting terrorism in several parts of the country.
		Pokhran has a special significance for the country and is an ideal place for the shaktipeeth from many angles,'' he said, ``Baba Ramdev is worshipped here for the reforms he brought about in the society, especially for waging a movement for the protection of women.
	www.dalitstan.org /journal/recthist/nuclear/tmpl_pok.html (809 words)

	Disarmament Diplomacy: - Slouching toward Pokhran II: Three Explanations of India's Quest for the Bomb
		A range of explanations have been proffered about India's decision to test nuclear weapons on 11 and 13 May, 1998, at Pokhran in the Thar desert in Rajasthan.
		The three most prominent explanations blame India's quest for prestige and status in the international order, the rise of the jingoistic Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its more muscular view of Indian defense policy, or the inevitable culmination of a bureaucratic-scientific-technological momentum.
		While each of these explanations has some merit, none of them, in and of themselves, can adequately explain India's pathway to Pokhran II, twenty four years after the "peaceful" nuclear explosion at the site on 18 May 1974.
	www.acronym.org.uk /38three.htm (2048 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> PM justifies Pokhran nuclear tests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Staten island (New York): Ahead of his discussions with US president Bill Clinton later this week, prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has strongly justified the nuclear tests conducted by India and asserted that the country's defense remains top priority of his government.
		Those who had criticized the 1998 Pokhran nuclear tests are no longer raising the issue because they do not doubt India’s intentions, he told a public meeting of the Indian American community here on Saturday.
		However, their concern was that India’s tests would serve as a pretext to those with evil intentions to follow suit, he said at the meeting organized, among others by the overseas friends of BJP and Vishwa Hindu Parishad whose president Ashok Singhal was present on the occasion.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2000/09/10/10pok.html (227 words)

	CNN not CIA alerted Clinton to Pokhran 98- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In his recently released book - Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy and the Bomb, Talbott is quoted by the Daily Times as saying that New Delhi had succeeded in forcing Washington to pay serious and sustained attention to it with the nuclear tests.
		India shrugged off both international condemnation and sanctions that followed the tests, and to Washington's annoyance and dismay, France and other countries began to feel that not doing business with India wasn't practical in the long term.
		The 14 rounds of "strategic dialogue" held after Pokhran between Indian and the United States, Talbott said, had led to an overall transformation in the quality of relations between the two countries.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/827337.cms (232 words)

	pokhran to kargil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		One of the first acts of the BJP-led government was to conduct the nuclear explosions in Pokhran and declare that India is going to make nuclear weapons.
		Under American pressure and its anxiety to overcome international isolation after the Pokhran blasts, Vajpayee agreed to go to Lahore for Laths in February this year.
		Both on the vital question of Kashmir and India's role in the world, the BJP has compromised India's national interests by its willingness to become a junior partner of the Americans.
	www.ganashakti.com /old/1999/990816/feature1.htm (1180 words)

	IAF to flex muscle at Pokhran on March 14
		IAF to flex muscle at Pokhran on March 14
		The Indian Air Force will undertake its largest ever firepower display at Chandan air ground range at Pokhran, in the heart of the Thar desert, on March 14 in the presence of special invitees.
		Republication or redistribution of PTI content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent.
	ushome.rediff.com /news/2004/mar/08iaf.htm?zcc=ar (166 words)

	archive: 2 years post Pokhran India, Pak N-arms race yet to come (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/00may12/ 2 years post Pokhran India, Pak N-arms race yet to come NEW DELHI, May 11: Two years after conducting nuclear tests this day, sending shockwaves around the world, India is working on creating a minimum credible nuclear deterrent despite reservatioins of the elite nuclear club to allow it entry.
		Though the sharp reactions which followed the Pokhran underground tests have become muted, India is still struggling to gain nuclear-weapon state status as disarmament experts concede that a full blown nuclear arms race predicted by them in South Asia has not materialised yet.
		While Western nuke experts say that both India and Pakistan, which followed Indiaâs tests with their own, have ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons, they claim that scientists of both the countries were still struggling to produce suitable nuclear war heads.
	www.media-watch.org /articles/0500/440.html (289 words)

	Pokhran II : A Voice for Humanity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the arid north-western state of Rajasthan in India, Lord Buddha chose his birthday after a long break of 24 years to crack into a wide grin that were the three nuclear blasts at Pokhran at 1543 hours on May the 15th 1998.
		A thirteen year old in Pokhran has stated (and this has been reported by the world media) that he is happy that India can now defeat its neighbour!!
		Please note this "immature" kid will grow up feeding on hatred and ill-feeling in the narrow confines of his head and may eventually be involved in the decision-making process of his country which the world might still be unaware of.
	chemeng.iisc.ernet.in /alumni/nuclear3.html (773 words)

	The Hindu : 'Pokhran radiation level normal'
		The radiation level in Pokhran and in the villages surrounding the nuclear test site of May 1998 is normal, according to the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).
		DAE, which collected samples of sand, milk, vegetables and grass from the area following rumours that cattle are dying in Khetolai, the nearest human habitation to the Pokhran blast site, has refuted the charges of radiation causing deaths of cattle.
		Malhotra, who has been on an awareness building exercise in Jodhpur and the Rajasthan capital after the recent reports in the media on the possible adverse impact of the nuclear blasts in the Pokhran neighbourhood, said the explosion had been carried out deep inside the ground and that ever since there had been no radiation.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2002/08/12/stories/2002081207981100.htm (411 words)

	Raja Ramanna, Pokhran nuclear test was Ramanna's idea. Dynamite is generally used to dig canals and reservoirs, clear ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Raja Ramanna, Pokhran nuclear test was Ramanna's idea.
		Dynamite is generally used to dig canals and reservoirs, clear space for dams and harbours and even to make underground storehouses for nuclear wastes...
		On May 18, 1974, India tested its first nuclear device in the Pokhran desert in Rajasthan.
	www.4to40.com /4to40.com_non_ssl/legends/print.asp?article=legends_rajaramanna (338 words)

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