National technology Day- 11 May

๐Ÿš€National technology Day- 11 May

๐Ÿš€ Every year the Union Ministry of Science and Technology celebrates National Technology Day on May 11.

๐Ÿš€The President of India also presents National Technology Award on the day to individuals as well as companies for their immense contribution to science.

๐Ÿš€Technology and science ministers also come forward to celebrate the day by organizing various kinds of events for the development of science in the country.

๐Ÿš€ On this day in 1998, India successfully tested Shakti-I nuclear missile in the Indian Army's Test range in Pokhran, Rajasthan.

๐Ÿš€ The day acts as a reminder of the country's technology advancements.

๐Ÿš€ National Technology also marks the flight of Hansa-3, first indigenous aircraft of India.

๐Ÿš€ It was developed by National aerospace laboratories.

                   ☘️ Don't forget ☘️
๐Ÿš€ Pokhran I Nuclear Test:-

๐Ÿš€ Smiling Budhha was the assigned code name of India's first successful nuclear bomb test on 18 May 1974.

๐Ÿš€ The bomb was detonated on the army base Pokhran Test Range (PTR), in Rajasthan,

๐Ÿš€Pokhran-1 was also the first confirmed nuclear weapons test by a nation outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

๐Ÿš€ Officially, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) characterised this test as a "peaceful nuclear explosion".

๐Ÿš€Pokhran II Nuclear Test:-

๐Ÿš€On May 11, 1998, India successfully test-fired nuclear missile Shakti-I at the Pokhran Test Range of Indian Army in Rajasthan in an operation administered by late president and aerospace engineer Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

๐Ÿš€Overall, five nuclear tests were conducted with the detonation of two fission bombs and one fusion bomb on May 11 and two additional fission bombs on May 13.

๐Ÿš€The move prompted the then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to declare India as a nuclear state.

๐Ÿš€With this, India became the sixth country in the world to join the nuclear powered nation’s club and the first that was not a signatory to the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NPT).

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