Re: nuclear test explosions

["Robert M. Loesch" <loesch@spok.eh.doe.gov>]

At 07:00 AM 9/27/96 -0500, Franz Schoenhofer wrote:
>There is much talk about the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty the United Nations want
>to set into force. India refuses to sign such a treaty, so it will not come
>officially into force.
>
>I think that India has already conducted a long time ago a nuclear test
>explosion, but I am not sure whether I confuse this with an early test
>explosion of China. 
>
>Is there anyone who knows more about it?
>


According to the International Seismological Centre, India conducted
an underground test of a 15 KT plutonium weapon in the Rajasthan Desert
(lattitude 26.99 N, longitude 071.8 E) on May 18, 1974 at 2:34am UTC.

Bob Loesch

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