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In 1998, India conducted five nuclear test explosions, designated Pokhran-II: three on the 11thof May, and two on the 13thof the same month.

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These tests came about 24 years after India's first successful test explosion, Pokhran-I, which consisted of only one explosion.

Pokhran-II established India as the sixth nuclear power in the world and the first outside the UN security Counsel.

Pokhran is a reference to the test location, Pokran, Rajasthan.

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