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Option 3 : Only (i), (ii) and (iii)
In May 1998, India conducted the Pokhran-II tests which consisted of five nuclear bomb test explosions at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range.
- The first test was held in May 1974 with the code name Smiling Buddha whereas the Pokhran-II code name was Operation Shakti.
- After the nuclear explosions at Pokhran in 1998, various response comes from the world.
- After India and Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in 1998, the United States released a statement criticizing both countries.
- On June 6, The United Nations Security Council passed resolution 1172, condemning the tests and ordering both countries to stop conducting them.
- Between 1998 and 1999, the US held a series of bilateral talks with India on the question of India joining the CTBT and NPT.
- The US put pressure on India to ratify the Non-Proliferation Treaty but India declines it by arguing NPT discriminated between have-haves not.
- A number of major countries, including Japan and the United States, imposed sanctions against India as a result of the Pokhran-II nuclear tests.
Thus, The US condemned the nuclear tests of both India and Pakistan, UN Security Council passed a resolution condemning nuclear explosions. The US and its strategic allies imposed economic sanctions on India.
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