Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. Intelligence and the Indian Bomb
Briefing book · written May 1974 · released April 2006
Why this matters
Declassified U.S. intelligence estimates on India's nuclear program, from early capability assessments through the 1974 'Smiling Buddha' test to the 1998 Pokhran tests, which caught Washington by surprise. It shows a long run of warnings mixed with misjudgment. Important context for South Asian nuclear history.
Read the original
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB187/
Hosted by National Security Archive (GWU)
Tags
Part of a collection · step 14 of 15
The Nuclear Paper Trail
Proliferation in practice: watching India's program.
Part of a collection · step 5 of 7
South Asia in the Files
From Smiling Buddha to Pokhran-II, through U.S. intelligence.
Cite
Central Intelligence Agency. "U.S. Intelligence and the Indian Bomb." May 1974. Released April 2006. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB187/ (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0055).
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