India tests apparently also surprised China, Russia

India's nuclear tests, which surprised the U.S. intelligence community, apparently also caught China and Russia off guard, because neither had reconnaissance satellites in orbit at the time. Russia has flown two photo reconnaissance satellites this year. One, Cosmos 2349, flew from Feb. 17 to April...

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