india conducted her first nuclear test on 18 may 1974.
india conducted her first nuclear test on 18 may 1974.
when did india conduct her first nuclear test?
18 may 1974
section::::notable detections.:india.









































india's first nuclear test was detected 18 may 1974, by aftac.









































section::::notable detections.:vela incident.









































on 22 september 1979, one of the vela satellites detected a double flash of light, consistent with a nuclear explosion, centered over the prince edwards islands. there is still a great deal of contention about whether the detection was nuclear in origin.









































section::::notable detections.:pakistan.









































aftac detected pakistan's first of five nuclear tests 28 may 1998, with another nuclear test 30 may 1998. this was several days after several indian tests.









































section::::notable detections.:north korea.
air force technical applications center
by comparison, the first plutonium core nuclear device tested by the united states (trinity test) had a yield of 20 kilotons of tnt, and the first nuclear device detonated by india in 1974, though of primitive design, had a yield in the region of 8 kilotons of tnt. if the north korean nuclear test is less than even a kiloton in yield, it would be a historically small inaugural nuclear test. even if it were as many as the reported intentional yield of 4 kt it would be the smallest nuclear test ever conducted by a state as a first test. some advanced nuclear powers have produced very small tactical nuclear weapons in the low-kiloton range, but their development is far more technologically challenging than that of weapons in the 15–20 kiloton range, requiring advanced weapons materials and core geometries.
2006 north korean nuclear test