US detected Indian nuke test buildup in 1995

February 23, 2013 01:19

In the last months of 1995, US intelligence agencies detected signs of India's nuclear test preparations at Pokhran but the satellite photos that analysts studied were 'as clear as mud', according to declassified documents published today.

The set of classified documents released by National Security Archive and Nuclear Proliferation International History Project through the mandatory declassification review process, sheds light on the intelligence watch over the Indian test site and the Bill Clinton administration's efforts to head-off a feared test.

Surveillance by US intelligence of the Indian test site at Pokhran was intense.

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