During the tenure of which president india conducted its nuclear test?
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The Indian government has officially declared the 11 May as National Technology Day in India to commemorate the first of the five nuclear tests that were carried out on 11 May 1998.
On May 11 1998, India conducted landmark Pokhran-II nuclear test at the Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district under the leadership of Prime Minister Lt Atal Bihari Vajpayee .
The day was officially declared as the National Technology Day. It was the second instance of nuclear testing conducted by India; the first test, code-named Smiling Buddha, was conducted in May 1974.
K. R. Narayanan was the President during the Pokhran test.
A series of five nuclear explosions were conducted between May 11 and May 13, 1998. under the leadership of Late President APJ Abdul Kalam who was the Scientific Adviser to the prime minister and Head of the DRDO. The five nuclear devices detonated during the Pokhran II Test were Shakti I, II, III, IV and V.