Nuclear | MCQs

Explanation

Pokhran-I was India's first successful nuclear bomb test

Pokhran-I was assigned a code name, Smiling Buddha.

It was done on 18th May 1974

Pokhran is located in Rajasthan 

the bomb was detonated on the army-based Pokhra Test Range (PTR) by the Indian Army.

Explanation

Iranian Nuclear agreement b/w Iran the five permanent members of UN Security Council (China, UK, USA, France, Russia) Plus Germany and European Union in Vienna on 14 July 2015

Explanation

Since the first nuclear test explosion on July 16, 1945, the following eight nations have detonated nuclear test explosions at dozens of test sites: 

United States

USSR/ Russia

United Kingdom

France

China

India

Pakistan

North Korea

Explanation

Pakistan on 25.11.2021 conducted a successful flight test of the Shaheen-1A surface-to-surface ballistic missile.

Explanation

 Hahn is involved in the German project aimed at developing an atomic bomb.

History:

On December 21, 1938, German scientists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann split uranium atoms

and were surprised to find several lighter products, including barium-141, instead of the heavy elements they had anticipated.

Additional information:

J. Robert Oppenheimer was called the "father of the atomic bomb".

Explanation

1986

Pakistan continues to promote its uranium enrichment program, which, according to Pakistani sources, gained the ability to carry out a nuclear explosion in 1987.

Explanation

Pakistan conducted a series of nuclear tests on 28 May 1998 at the Chagai test site, in Balochistan.

5 Nuclear tests were conducted by Pakistan at 15:15 hrs PST on 28 May 1998.

The tests were performed at Ras Koh Hills in the Chagai District of Balochistan Province.

Chagai-I was Pakistan's first public test of nuclear weapons.

while 

Chagai-II is the codename assigned to the second atomic test conducted by Pakistan, carried out on 30 May 1998

These tests followed the Chagai-I series

The test site was Kharan Desert, Pakistan

Explanation

Three mutual conversions of energy forms occur at nuclear power plants:

nuclear energy is converted into thermal energy,

thermal energy is converted into mechanical energy,

and mechanical energy is converted into electric energy.

Explanation

Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan is called father of Pakistan's atomic weapons program.

Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan died on 10 October 2021, at the age of 85 after being transferred to a hospital in Islamabad with lung problems.

Explanation

 U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid signed a joint pledge on 14 July 2022  to deny Iran nuclear arms, a show of unity by allies long divided over diplomacy with Iran.