Book: Pokhran
Author: Uday Singh
We all have heard the success story of 'smiling buddha' but the writer talks about the demerits of it on the life of the natives of Pokhran especially it talked about Chaitanya and his struggle of growing old with stump hands and feet.
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Smiling Buddha (MEA designation: Pokhran-I) was the assigned code name of India's first successful nuclear bomb test on 18 May 1974. 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.
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"You should try not to pick up a fight with the very poor or the very rich. They can go to lengths you and I can't."
The success story of smiling buddha also come up with various question like :
Have nuclear bombs made India a safer place? Have they deterred her enemies? Have they dissuaded our archenemy Pakistan from sponsoring terrorism aimed at our people?
Sadly, the answer to all these questions is a resounding No.