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 second nuclear test series of India was conducted in:
May 1998
India conducted its second nuclear test series, known as Pokhran-II, in May 1998 under the leadership of **Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee**. The tests included five nuclear detonations and confirmed India’s status as a nuclear power.
Important Questions from Security in Contemporary World
In August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait, rapidly occupying and subsequently annexing it. The United Nations mandated the liberation of Kuwait by force. Name the US president who hailed it as the emergence of a new world order?
Traditional security policy has a third component which is known as the ______.
India's security strategy has four broad components. Which one of the following is not a component of India's security strategy?
A. Meeting security challenge within country
B. Acquire the territories of its neighbour, so that India can have larger geographical area
C. Strengthening its military norms
D. Strengthen international norms
E. Attempt to develop its economy in a way that vast masses are lifted out of poverty
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
When did the US launch its invasion of Iraq under the codename 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'?
CTBT stands for:
