Ajahadya and weapons of mass destruction

From its inception in 1951 until its voluntary dismantling in 1982, Ajahadya had a secret program intended to develop both nuclear weapons and an indigenous ballistic missile system capable of mounting nuclear warheads. The program, following numerous financial overruns and technical issues, was formally confirmed and discontinued in 1982 following the creation of ROSPO with the Atomic Energy Commission being allowed full access to the program's dismantlement and annual inspections of Ajahadya's nuclear program to ensure it remains used for peaceful purposes only.

Ajahadya
Nuclear program start date	1951
First nuclear weapon test	N/A
First fusion weapon test	N/A
Last nuclear test	N/A
Largest yield test	N/A
Total tests	0
Peak stockpile	0
Current stockpile	None; the programme was voluntarily discontinued in 1982 with facilities being dismantled under Atomic Energy Commission supervision.
Maximum range	'Unknown; it is unclear what delivery system would have been utilised by an Ajahadyan nuclear weapon.

Nuclear Weapons

In the early 1950s, in the aftermath of the First Hyndanan War following the death of Mohan Balchandra, his son, Nishant Balchandra, declared in a 1951 Union Defence Council meeting that 'Hyndana must possess all weapons necessary to defend itself against her enemies, both near and far' which is widely believed to be the first indication of the start of development of nuclear weapons in Ajahadya.

The program, begun in 1951 and ended in 1982, is widely regarded by nuclear scholars as a textbook example of 'how not to run a nuclear weapons program', and has been labeled as the 'least successful nuclear weapons program in history'. Nishant Balchandra, in a 1992 interview on the program, admitted that the program had been 'a colossal waste of time and money and one of the greatest policy failures of my government.'

Ajahadya's nuclear program was centered around the Svaragni Nuclear Research Laboratory, built in 1951 as the home for Ajahadya's nuclear research and housing Ajahadya's first nuclear reactor, intended for research purposes. This reactor would reach output levels of 2MW in 1955 and 4MW in 1964. The Svaragni Radiological Research Facility would be constructed from 1964 to 1973, intended to refine yellowcake, produce fuel for nuclear reactors and reprocess plutonium from spent nuclear fuel from the Svaragni Labratory's reactor. The delays in the construction of the Svaragni Radiological Research Facility and increasing costs, plus Ajahadyan military superiority in the Second Hyndanan War lessened the Ajahadyan leadership's enthusiasm for the nuclear project.

A reactor intended for the large-scale production of plutonium was begun in 1972, but the outbreak of the Third Hyndanan War put Ajahadya's nuclear program on hold, with funding being redirected to the military instead. The reactor's construction site would be destroyed by a Subarnan airstrike in 1974, drastically setting back Ajahadya's program. By 1978, with the loss of Lower Hynd to Subarna and with its military greatly reduced, Ajahadya's nuclear program was effectively defunct from lack of funds and political will to continue with the program, especially after the death of Arjuna Kalasarah in 1981, the main advocate for the program. Nishant Balchandra announced the program's existence in 1982 following the foundation of ROSPO and asked the Atomic Energy Commission to inspect Ajahadya's then current nuclear facilities during their conversion to non-military purposes.

Since 1982, although Ajahadya has cooperated with Xiaodong on nuclear matters, the Atomic Energy Commission has been allowed full access annually to inspect Ajahadya's nuclear facilities to verify that they are only intended for peaceful purposes. The Svaragni Nuclear Research Laboratory's reactor with Xiaodongese assistance was upgraded to an output of 8MW in 1988. The reactor was dismantled in 2000, with a replacement 10 MW light-water reactor, along with the construction of a new activation analysis laboratory and a new medical isotope production laboratory. The Svaragni Radiological Research Facility and Svaragni Nuclear Research Laboratory both remain operational, and the Atomic Energy Commission conducts regular inspections of the facilities.