Documentary on Pokhran Tests (Star News)

[DMLA]

A new doc on Pokhran tests (ignore the theatrics ofcourse!)...

 

[Bl[i]tZ]

Pokhran was one of the 10 biggest failures of CIA in the last century according to FP magazine . Indian army Engineering Brigade fooled the US satellites.

After the detonation the CIA found a significant reading on the Richter Scale and an Indian PM saying that India has tested nuclear devices. OUCh!

 

[cloud_9]

Thank's for posting...watched it without the audio as the narration was all monkey business

 

[Abingdonboy]

Pokhran was one of the 10 biggest failures of CIA in the last century according to FP magazine . Indian army Engineering Brigade fooled the US satellites.

After the detonation the CIA found a significant reading on the Richter Scale and an Indian PM saying that India has tested nuclear devices. OUCh!

COuld you provide the link to FP? And did you mean 10 biggest blunders ,or something , by the CIA in the last century?

 

[Bl[i]tZ]

COuld you provide the link to FP? And did you mean 10 biggest blunders ,or something , by the CIA in the last century?

Sure, here you go -

The Ten Biggest American Intelligence Failures - By Uri Friedman | Foreign Policy

The other 9 include

Pearl Harbor Attack

The 9/11 Attacks

The Iraq War

The Iranian Revolution

The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

The Collapse of the Soviet Union

The Indian Nuclear Test

In May 1998, the CIA didn't get wind of India's intention to set off several underground nuclear blasts, in what Richard Shelby, then chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called a "colossal failure of our nation's intelligence gathering." The intelligence agency saved some face a couple weeks later when it warned that Pakistan was preparing to conduct its own nuclear tests, which it did on May 28, 1998.

At the time, the Washington Post reported that a U.S. spy satellite had picked up clear evidence of India's nuclear test preparations six hours before the blasts, but the U.S. intelligence analysts responsible for tracking India's nuclear program hadn't been on duty. Instead, they discovered the images when they arrived at work the next morning, after the tests had already taken place.

Above, Indian soldiers walk on shattered ground on May 20, 1998, as they patrol the Shakti-1 site near New Delhi, where the nuclear test had taken place nine days earlier.

John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images

 

[arp2041]

watch this one on tv, its very good documentary on pokhran-2, sometimes star news really becomes a star