Who gave India nukes?

In 1989, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi gave Defense Secretary Naresh Chandra approval to develop the bomb. Chandra continued the program through successive governments in the 1990s after Gandhi lost power in the 1989 general election. India most likely completed weaponized nuclear warheads around 1994.
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Who gave atomic bomb to India?

Work on a nuclear fission device had been authorized by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on September 7, 1972. A small team of about 75 scientists and engineers at the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) began the process of designing and developing an atomic bomb. The head of the development team was Raja Ramanna.
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How did India get nuclear?

After Indira Gandhi became Prime Minister in 1966, the nuclear program was consolidated when physicist Raja Ramanna joined the efforts. Another nuclear test by China eventually led to India's decision to build nuclear weapons in 1967 and conduct its first nuclear test, Smiling Buddha, in 1974.
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Who gave Pakistan nukes?

Abdul Qadeer Khan, known as father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, dies at 85 Khan launched Pakistan on the path to becoming a nuclear weapons power in the early 1970s.
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Who made first nuclear in India?

Codenamed "Smiling Buddha", India became world's sixth nuclear power outside the five permanent members of the United Nations. It was on May 18, 1974, that India tested its first nuclear bomb successfully in Rajasthan's Pokhran.
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Who invented hydrogen bomb?

Edward Teller, Stanislaw M. Ulam, and other American scientists developed the first hydrogen bomb, which was tested at Enewetak atoll on November 1, 1952.
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Who Founded nuclear bomb?

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist. During the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory and responsible for the research and design of an atomic bomb. He is often known as the “father of the atomic bomb."
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Did Abdul Qadeer Khan sell nuclear?

Abdul Qadeer Khan, who was considered the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb and who secretly sold nuclear-weapons technology to such states as Iran and North Korea, died Sunday at age 85 after being hospitalized with covid-19.
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Who gave nukes to North Korea?

1956: The Soviet Union begins training North Korean scientists and engineers, giving them "basic knowledge" to initiate a nuclear program. 1958: The U.S. deploys nuclear armed Honest John missiles and 280 mm atomic cannons to South Korea.
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How did Pakistan get nuclear?

Pakistan began development of nuclear weapons in January 1972 under Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who delegated the program to the Chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) Munir Ahmad Khan with a commitment to having the device ready by the end of 1976.
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When did Pakistan get nukes?

Ever since May 1998, when Pakistan first began testing nuclear weapons, claiming its national security demanded it, American presidents have been haunted by the fear that Pakistan's stockpile of nukes would fall into the wrong hands.
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Who is Abdul Kalam in Pokhran movie?

'Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran' is directed by Abhishek Sharma and also stars Diana Penty and Boman Irani. According to reports Yogendra Tiku has played the role of Dr Kalam in the film.
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Who is the famous scientist of Pakistan?

Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan is a famous Pakistani nuclear scientist and a metallurgical engineer. He is widely regarded as the founder of gas-centrifuge enrichment technology for Pakistan's nuclear deterrent program.
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How many nuclear bombs Pakistan have?

Pakistan is believed to have a stockpile of approximately 160 warheads, making it the 6th largest nuclear arsenal. Pakistan is actively developing nuclear weapons, and experts project that it may have the 5th largest arsenal by 2025 with 220-250 warheads.
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Did Albert Einstein help in ww2?

A Letter to the President

In August 1939, Einstein wrote to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to warn him that the Nazis were working on a new and powerful weapon: an atomic bomb. Fellow physicist Leo Szilard urged Einstein to send the letter and helped him draft it.
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Who nuked Japan?

The United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.
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Does Pakistan have hydrogen bomb?

Although the tests were said to include a hydrogen bomb, a former coordinator of India's nuclear program said in 2009 that the hydrogen bomb had been a dud and "completely failed to ignite." Pakistan performed nuclear tests in 1998 after India's, but the scale of the tests has been disputed and Pakistan has said that ...
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Who is the father of atom?

John Dalton at times was known as the father of modern atomic theory. In 1803, he speculated that all atoms of a given element are identical in size and mass. Dalton; John Dalton reasoned that elements were composed of smaller atoms. This lead to the atomic theory of matter.
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Who was the IAS officer in Pokhran?

Plot. In 1995, Ashwat Raina, an IAS officer from the Research and Analysis Wing, suggests the ministers perform a retaliatory nuclear test in response to the recent nuclear missile tests by China. However, he is ridiculed, and the PMO secretary Suresh Yadav tells him to keep the file of his plan brief.
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Who is John role in Parmanu?

It is this operation that John Abraham-starrer Parmanu – The Story Of Pokhran attempts to present on the big screen; the film releases on May 25. John Abraham is playing an army officer named Ashwat Rana, in charge of the entire operation. He handpicks his team that includes specialists of different fields.
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Who conducted Pokhran test?

The bomb was detonated on the army base Pokhran Test Range (PTR), in Rajasthan, by the Indian Army under the supervision of several key Indian generals. Pokhran-I was also the first confirmed nuclear weapons test by a nation outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
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Is Pakistan stronger than India?

According to the most recent study from Global Firepower Ranking, the military might of India and Pakistan is completely unmatched. In terms of the total power index, India is only behind the United States, Russia, and China, while Pakistan is far behind in 10th place.
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