As my research involves nuclear reactors I found myself bumping into this website by accident:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiling_Buddha
I didn't read it all, but for those who don't know:
Does anyone else think it was extremely distasteful to name an operation in which a weapon capable of so much destruction and death was tested after the most peaceful teacher the world has ever known? Whether nuclear weaponry is a "deterrent" or a "weapon" is really a matter of semantics. The fact is that this device is designed to kill on an enormous scale, and for this test to be named thusly I think is a deep insult.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiling_Buddha wrote: The Smiling Buddha was the first nuclear test explosion by India on May 18, 1974 at Pokhran. It was also the first confirmed nuclear test by a nation outside the permanent five members of the United Nations Security Council having been developed and executed with no foreign help or assistance.