[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 20 (Monday, May 18, 1998)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress Reporting the Detonation of a Nuclear Device by 
India

May 13, 1998

To the Congress of the United States:

    Pursuant to section 102(b)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act, I am 
hereby reporting that, in accordance with that section, I have 
determined that India, a non-nuclear-weapon state, detonated a nuclear 
explosive device on May 11, 1998. I have further directed the relevant 
agencies and instrumentalities of the United States Government to take 
the necessary actions to impose the sanctions described in section 
102(b)(2) of that Act.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
May 13, 1998.