Modern Era · South Asia · War

1998

India and Pakistan test nuclear weapons

May 11, 1998

India conducted five nuclear tests at its Rajasthan desert site; Pakistan followed with six of its own two weeks later. Both subcontinental rivals were now openly nuclear powers. Their populations cheered; the world sanctioned them and got used to it. A new and dangerous corner of the nuclear map had been added.

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Before and after in South Asia

Before: December 3, 1984: Bhopal Gas Disaster
After: June 1, 2001: Nepal royal massacre

Before and after in War

Before: June 25, 1996: Khobar Towers bombing
After: March 24, 1999: NATO bombs Yugoslavia

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Nuclear weapons testing