Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri
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Basanti Dulal Nag Chaudhuri was an Indian Nuclear scientist and academic, and Scientific Advisor to the Ministry of Defence, Government of India. He is known as one of the pioneers of nuclear physics
B. D. Nag Chaudhuri (second from left, front row) with Meghnad Saha and others.
Smiling Buddha
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Smiling Buddha was the code name of India's first successful nuclear weapon test on 18 May 1974. The nuclear fission bomb was detonated in the Pokhran Test Range of the Indian Army in Rajasthan. As pe
Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri
…in India. While serving as the Director General (chairman) to the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), he played influential role in Pokhran-I (Smiling Buddha), India's first successful Nuclear bomb test on 18 May 1974. This historic achievement made India the sixth nation in the world to…
APSARA reactor and plutonium reprocessing facility at BARC as photographed by a US satellite on 19 February 1966