Beyonce 2024 Smiling Buddha. The american intelligence community in the nixon era missed india's preparations for a nuclear weapons test and was caught unawares when smiling buddha was successfully conducted at pokhran on may 18, 1974. Here is a brief profile of atal bihari vajpayee from 2003 when he won the india today newsmaker of the year award.

On this day in 1974, india conducted its landmark first nuclear tests in pokhran, rajasthan, as part of the ‘smiling buddha’ operation. The lalitavistara provides a good example.