Breaking News! In a big revelation, former Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai had threatened to destroy Pakistan's nuclear site in Islamabad in 1979 after the US failed to convince both India and Pakistan for mutual restraint in nuclear activities.

 

The declassified documents published by the American National Security Archive revealed that India had planned to smash the nuclear sites of Pakistan taking the help of Israel. Even Indian Air Force was ready to attack on the site, but Indian atomic bomb's architect Raja Ramanna predicted about the consequence.

As the US did not want Pakistan go for nuclear programme after India tested its first nuclear weapon naming the mission 'Operation Smiling Buddha' at Pokhran in May 1974, but Pakistan made its mission successful despite US interference. 

The documents revealed that the US Special National Intelligence Estimate had not examined seriously the prospects of Pakistani nuclear test saying it would be inferior to India. It noted that the US effort was unsuccessful in 1979.

Accusing the US, former Atomic Energy Commission and Barc director P K Iyengar said that America was aware of the prospects but did not take it seriously when Pakistan went for the nuclear test.

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