The Smiling Buddha lived its relatively short life in which desert?

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The Smiling Buddha, formally designated as Pokhran-I, was the codename of a operation of a first nuclear test explosion by India on 18 May 1974 at Pokhran. It was also the first confirmed nuclear test by a nation outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council having been developed and executed with the help of Canadian nuclear reactors and expertise. The explosive yield of the bomb was reported to be 8 kt. The fully assembled device had a hexagonal cross section, 1.25 meter in diameter and weighed 1400 kg. The device was detonated at 8.05 a.m. in a shaft 107 m under the army Pokhran test range in the Thar Desert (or Great Indian Desert), Rajasthan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiling_Buddha Jul 23 10, 6:23 PM