On the Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan, India conducted its first successful nuclear bomb test in 1974.
This test was given the code name 'Smiling Buddha.' As a result of this, India has become the sixth nuclear power. India becomes the sixth country to detonate an atomic bomb.
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