Operation Smiling Buddha (MEA designation: Pokhran-I) was the assigned code name of India's first successful nuclear bomb test on 18 May 1974. ... Pokhran-I was also the first confirmed nuclear weapons test by a nation outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

Was the first test of a nuclear bomb successful?

The first atomic bomb test is successfully exploded

On July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 a.m., the Manhattan Project yields explosive results as the first atom bomb is successfully tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Was India's first nuclear test successful?

India on May 18, 1974 conducted its first nuclear test, codenamed 'Smiling Buddha', in Rajasthan's Pokhran, becoming a nuclear power. In May 1998, India again conducted a series of nuclear tests at the same location (called Pokhran-II tests).