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One that would lead to the successful design of a nuclear device, a device that India would successfully test. China had just exploded a thermonuclear device in , and had become very belligerent - moving troops into disputed areas and making threats. And India's supply of separated plutonium, necessary for anything beyond purely theoretical work, was slowly accumulating.
Some researchers like Perkovich have concluded that the new effort was begun at the initiative of the scientists involved. Chengappa however states that Gandhi directly approved the new effort at the urging of her new secretary Parmeshwar Narain Haksar [Chengappa , pg. In any case Sarabhai did not try to stop this work when he became aware of it and appears by the spring of to have become at least a moderate supporter of the program.
That fall Rajagopala Chidambaram - then a researcher in molecular biology at BARC - was recruited by Raja Ramanna to investigate the equation of state of plutonium how its density varies with temperature and pressure - knowledge essential for designing an implosion bomb.
Chidambaram would later become the chairman of the IAEC, and head of India's nuclear weapons program leading up to the test series. Iyengar, Ramanna's deputy, and Satinder Kumar Sikka, who would lead the development of India's hydrogen bomb in the 90s. The team would eventually grow to between fifty and seventy five scientists.
India's nuclear weapons program moved in to full swing with Raja Ramanna at the helm. As Ramanna admitted in an interview on 10 October , the "Peaceful Nuclear Explosive" PNE program - implying an intention to develop the nuclear explosives for civilian engineering work - was simply a cover for a program aimed from the beginning to develop a weapons capability, in truth there was little if any interest in Plowshare type peaceful applications.
On the other hand, there was also no involvement of the military in the development program. There was no attempt to devise a military role for the nuclear explosive, or to seek the military's input for requirements.
The military's public statements on nuclear weapons at this time were far from enthusiastic - essentially mirroring Sarabhai's views - so the advocates of nuclear weapons development had little incentive to seek their collaboration. Even with the peaceful cover story, India found it necessary to keep as a low a profile on the project as possible to avoid inevitable attempts by other nations to obstruct it by denying access to nuclear technology and knowledge.
During December - January P. Iyengar visited the Soviet Union with three colleagues and toured the nuclear research facilities at Dubna. He was very impressed by the plutonium fueled pulsed fast reactor he saw there. This type of reactor is an unmoderated fast neutron reactor, that is allowed to go prompt supercritical to produce an intense very short pulse of neutrons. These are all characteristics of the cores of fission bombs, the principal difference between them being that in pulsed reactors the degree of supercriticality is very slight and ordinary thermal expansion of the reactor core is sufficient to shut down the reaction, while in fission bombs the degree is very large and the core cannot expand fast enough to shut down the reaction until vast amounts of energy are released.
Pulsed fast reactors provide an excellent laboratory model of fission bomb behavior, having been used for that purpose during the Manhattan Project the famous Dragon experiments and afterward the Godiva, Popsy and Topsy reactors. Recognizing this, Iyengar set about developing just such a reactor for India. The scientific leadership approved the plan in January , the kick-off meeting for this reactor, called Purnima an approximate acronym for Plutonium Reactor for Neutron Investigation in Multiplying Assemblies , took place in March Sarabhai's presence clearly indicates that with or without formal approval, the work at BARC toward weapon design now had Sarabhai's support.
Purnima was designed to use a hexagonal core of stainless steel pencil shaped rods containing 18 kg of plutonium as Chernobyl, the site of the deadliest nuclear accident of all time, should become a World Heritage site, Ukranian officials say. Soviet officials evacuated a mile km area around the plant, now known as the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Chernobyl Tours has been offering smaller flights over Chernobyl. The flight is similar to other creative pandemic-influenced travel ventures. The site has been open to the public since , when authorities deemed it safe to visit. Chernobyl Noun A major nuclear-energy accident. The city of Pripyat is where Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers, support crew, city personnel and their families lived.
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India tested five nuclear devices, although not all of them detonated. Indian officials claimed that the bombs had a yield equivalent to 45 kilotons of TNT, but independent estimates put the number closer to 16 kilotons Reed and Stillman Ours will never be weapons of aggression. India faced almost universal condemnation in the aftermath of the Pokhran II tests.
Soon after announcing its nuclear capabilities, India established the National Security Advisory Board, which devised a no-first-use policy for Indian nuclear weapons. This policy was later amended to consider a biological or chemical attack against India to be sufficient grounds for a nuclear response. Although the United States implemented economic sanctions against India after the tests, Indo-American relations have since warmed. The treaty allowed India access to nuclear materials through the international Nuclear Suppliers Group in exchange for safeguards on civilian nuclear facilities, including inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Separate cooperation agreements have since allowed additional inspections. Today, the civilian Nuclear Command Authority chaired by the prime minister has sole authority to authorize a nuclear strike. Bhatia, Vandana. Perkovich, George. Reed, Thomas C. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, Browse our collection of oral histories with workers, families, service members, and more about their experiences in the Manhattan Project.
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