Smiling Buddha, formally designated as Pokhran-I, was the codename given to the Republic of India's first nuclear test explosion that took place at the long-constructed Indian Army base, Pokhran Test Range at Pokhran municipality, Rajasthan state on 18 May 1974 at 8: 05 a. m. ( IST ).

* Pokhran-I ( Smiling Buddha ): On 18 May 1974 India detonated an 8 Kiloton nuclear device at Pokhran Test Range becoming the first nation to become nuclear capable outside the five permanent members of United Nations Security Council as well as dragging Pakistan along with it into a nuclear arms race with the Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto swearing to reciprocate India .< ref > The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Munir Ahmed Khan said that the test would force Pakistan to test its own nuclear bomb.

After India's nuclear test – codename Smiling Buddha — in May 1974, Bhutto sensed and saw this test as final anticipation for Pakistan's death.

* Curation of CD " Smiling Through My Teeth "-Sonic Arts Network ( May 2008 )

When Snow assembled his 1947 collection Dark Music he wanted it to include a dozen of his best stories, including one of his more sinister tales, “ Midnight ,” which had appeared in the May 1946 issue of Weird Tales with Bradbury ’ s story “ The Smiling People .” Later, Bradbury agreed to write the foreword for the volume.

* May 17 is Vesak full moon poya day ( Buddhism's Holiest Day, The day of birth, enlightenment ( nirvāna ), and passing away ( Parinirvāna ) of Gautama Buddha.

Detonation occurred on 18 May 1974, Buddha Jayanti ( a festival day in India marking the birth of Gautama Buddha ).

* May 8 – Buddha Purnima / Vaisakhi Purnima

* May 483 BC – Gautama Buddha, founder of Buddhism

In May, in the heavily Buddhist central city of Huế, where Diệm's elder brother was the Catholic Archbishop, the Buddhist majority was prohibited from displaying Buddhist flags during Vesak celebrations commemorating the birth of Gautama Buddha when the government cited a regulation prohibiting the display of non-government flags.

Likewise, in 2012, Vesak or the birth anniversary of the Buddha will be observed on 28 April in Hong Kong and Taiwan, on 5 May in Sri Lanka, on 6 May in India, on 28 May in South Korea and on 4 June in Thailand.

* May – Gautama Buddha, Indian prince, founder of Buddhism

In May 1963, the Buddhist crisis broke out after nine Buddhist protestors were killed in Huế while protesting a ban on the Buddhist flag on Vesak, the birthday of Gautama Buddha.

* 2001, May: Two of the world's tallest ancient Buddha statues, the Buddhas of Bamyan, are completely destroyed by the Taliban in Bamyan, Afghanistan.

In May 1963, in the central city of Huế, where Thục was archbishop, Buddhists were prohibited from displaying the Buddhist flag during Vesak celebrations commemorating the birth of Gautama Buddha, when the government cited a regulation prohibiting the display of non-government flags at Thục's request.

Once a year, during the full moon in May or June, Buddhists in Indonesia observe Vesak () day commemorating the birth, death, and the time when Siddhārtha Gautama attained the highest wisdom to become the Buddha Shakyamuni.

Construction of the palace began on 6 May 1782, at the order of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke ( Rama I ), the founder of the Chakri Dynasty, when he moved the capital city from Thonburi to Bangkok.

In May 2002, a sculpture of the Buddha was carved out of a mountain in Sri Lanka.

Leadbeater also states that an important duty of Sanat Kumara is to participate in an elaborate ritual every Wesak ( the Full Moon of May ) led by Gautama Buddha, and also participated in by the Maitreya ( the being Theosophists identify as Christ ), in which cosmic energy is focused from the " Solar Logos " to Earth in order to keep our planet's cosmic energy in balance.

Alternatively, the Bull, according to Foucher, represents the birth of the Buddha, as it happened during the month of Vaicakha ( April – May ), known to Buddhists as Vesak, under the zodiacal sign of the Taurus, during the full moon.

As the Dalai Lama walks to the guard post, an Indian guard approaches him, salutes, and inquires: " May I ask, are you the Lord Buddha?

Yang Tong set sacrifices for the Buddha and prayed, " May it be that I will no longer again be reborn into an imperial household.

The full moon in May ( Kason ) is however the most sacred of all as the Buddha was born, became the Enlightened One, and entered Parinirvana ( died ) on the same day, celebrated by watering the Bodhi tree.

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (; May 21, 1921 – December 14, 1989 ) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist.

In May 1968 he completed an essay, " Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom ", where the anti-ballistic missile defense is described as a major threat of world nuclear war.

In May 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was persuaded by the idea of countering the United States ' growing lead in developing and deploying strategic missiles by placing Soviet intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Cuba.

In May 1985, the vessel was instrumental for ' Operation Exodus ', the evacuation of about 300 Rongelap Atoll islanders whose home had been contaminated with nuclear fallout from a US nuclear test two decades ago which had never been cleaned up and was still having severe health effects on the locals.

* 1998 – India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11.

The Daily Telegraph on 1 May 2008 reported that tunnels were being built into hillsides which could be capable of hiding up to 20 nuclear submarines from spy satellites.

On May 18, 2003, two referenda regarding the future of nuclear power in Switzerland were held.

" The launch of such a missile could ... provoke a full-scale counterattack using strategic nuclear forces ," Putin said in May 2006.

* May 28 – Nuclear testing: In response to a series of Indian nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes 5 nuclear devices of its own in the Chaghai hills of Baluchistan, codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan and other nations to impose economic sanctions.

* May 10 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton, under the command of Captain Edward L. Beach, Jr., completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the Earth codenamed Operation Sandblast.

* May 21 – China detonates the largest nuclear bomb it has ever tested, sparking a protest from U. S. President Bush.

* May 25 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its only nuclear artillery test: Upshot-Knothole Grable.

On 31 May Powell gave a speech at Downpatrick against nuclear weapons.

He had been assigned to work with General Electric at Schenectady, New York State, to develop a nuclear propulsion plant for destroyers, but in May 1946, through the efforts of his wartime boss, Rear Admiral Earle Mills, who became the head of the Navy's Bureau of Ships that same year, Rickover was finally sent to Oak Ridge as the deputy manager of the entire project, granting him access to all facilities, projects and reports.

However, after his retirement — and only a few months later, in May 1982 — Admiral Rickover spoke more specifically regarding the questions " Could you comment on your own responsibility in helping to create a nuclear navy?

In May 1982 the townspeople of Garrett Park voted 245 to 46 to ban the production, transportation, storage, processing, disposal, or use of nuclear weapons within the town.

On May 14, 1961, the world's first nuclear ramjet engine, " Tory-IIA ," mounted on a railroad car, roared to life for a few seconds.

After Gorbachev's May agreement on German NATO membership, the Soviets further agreed that Germany would be treated as an ordinary NATO country, with the exception that former East German territory would not have foreign NATO troops or nuclear weapons.

Given this uncertainty, between April – May 2006 at the JINR, a FLNR – PSI team conducted experiments probing the synthesis of this isotope as a daughter in the nuclear reaction < sup > 242 </ sup > Pu (< sup > 48 </ sup > Ca, 3n )< sup > 287 </ sup > Fl.

In May 1998, India conducted five underground nuclear tests in Pokhran desert in Rajasthan.

In the previous May, an estimated 65, 000 people — including California Governor Jerry Brown — attended a march and rally against nuclear power in Washington, D. C.

On May 25, 2009, North Korea conducted another nuclear test, which is believed to have been the cause of a magnitude 4. 7 seismic event.