Multiple choice

India successfully carried out an under ground test of atomic device at ____ in Rajasthan.

  1. Jaipur

  2. Pokharan

  3. Jaisalmer
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Explanation

India successfully conducted its first underground nuclear test, code-named Smiling Buddha, on May 18, 1974, at the Pokhran Test Range in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan. A second series of tests, known as Pokhran-II, was conducted at the same site in May 1998. Jaipur and Jaisalmer are major cities in Rajasthan but were not the sites of these nuclear tests.

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