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India · 1998Pokhran-II: India demonstrates nuclear weapons capability

India conducted five nuclear tests at Pokhran on 11 and 13 May 1998, declared that it possessed nuclear weapons, and drew international sanctions and reciprocal Pakistani tests. Atal Bihari Vajpayee's BJP-led coalition took office in March after the 12th Lok Sabha elections; Amartya Sen won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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Key figures

Atal Bihari Vajpayee — Prime Minister from March 1998; oversaw Pokhran-II.K.R. Narayanan — President of India during the 1998 government formation and Pokhran-II.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam — Scientific Adviser and DRDO head; key coordinator of Pokhran-II.R. Chidambaram — Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission; key scientific leader in the nuclear tests.Yashwant Sinha — Union Finance Minister; presented the 1998–99 Budget during the sanctions period.Amartya Sen — 1998 Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences for welfare economics.

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