Study the following paragraph and answer the five questions that follow: The First Nuclear explosion was undertaken by India in 1974. Our first PM had always put faith in science and technology for rapidly building a modern India. A significant component of India's industrialisation plans was the nuclear programme initiated in the late 1940s under the guidance of Homi J. Bhabha. When communist China conducted a nuclear test in 1964, the permanent members of the UN Security Council tried to impose the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1968. India always considered the NPT as discriminatory and had refused to sign it, and also further refused to sign the CIBT. When India conducted its first nuclear test, it was termed as a peaceful explosion. Later India conducted a series of tests, Pakistan soon followed. India’s Nuclear doctrine of credible minimum nuclear deterrence professes “no first use.”
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council are:
US, USSR, UK, France, and China
The five permanent members of the **United Nations Security Council (UNSC)** are United States, United Kingdom, USSR (now Russia), France, and China. These countries have **veto power**, allowing them to block any substantive resolution.
Incorrect options: (a) India is not a permanent member of the UNSC. (b) Japan is not a permanent member of the UNSC. (d) Pakistan and India are not permanent members of the UNSC.
Important Questions from United Nation and Its Organisations
"The United Nations was not created to take humanity to heaven but to save it from hell." Who made this statement?
Amnesty International works in the field of:
Which country is referred to as the world's oldest democracy?
What is the full form of NSG?
Name the country which is the single largest contributor to the UN budget?
