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8/ The Aftermath. Within weeks, feudal dues are abolished. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was drafted. The word “citizen” itself becomes a badge of honor. July 14 was declared a national holiday in 1880, and the fortress’s last stone was presented to

7/ 8:00 p.m. – Paris Parties . Fires glow in the summer twilight. Wine flows from broken casks. The Bastille’s stones are already being pried loose for souvenirs - France’s first mass-market revolutionary merch. In Versailles, King Louis XVI writes one terse word in his hunting

6/ 5:30 p.m. – The Walls Crack, the Myth Shatters. After four hours of bombardment, a second drawbridge crashes down. The garrison of 82 soldiers surrenders. De Launay is seized, marched through jeering crowds, and killed on the steps of the Hôtel de Ville. His head is

5/ 3:00 p.m. – Truce Talks Collapse. Governor Bernard-René de Launay invites delegates inside to negotiate. They demand the powder; he stalls. When the crowd outside thinks their envoys have been arrested, a shot rings out - nobody is sure who fired first. Muskets answer, then

4/ 12:00 p.m. – The Bastille: Seven Prisoners, Tons of Gunpowder. The fortress rises 30 meters above the faubourg Saint-Antoine, its eight stone towers casting long shadows. Inside are only seven inmates - counterfeiters, a deviant aristocrat, and two lunatics -but its cellars

3/ 9:00 a.m. – Shopping for Weapons at Les Invalides. A restless crowd marches on Les Invalides, the veterans’ hospital and arms depot. Within minutes, they haul away 32,000 muskets, bayonets, and a handful of cannons. Powder, however, is still missing. Someone yells, "To the

2/ 6:00 a.m. – The City Runs Out of Bread… Again. Bakeries are shuttered. Parisians queue for hours only to be told "plus de pain". Rumors race through the streets: the king has ordered the Royal German Cavalry to surround the city overnight. The price of flour spikes, tempers

🧵 1/ July 14, 1789 - Paris didn’t just wake up angry; it woke up revolutionary. Here is a walkthrough of the day's events when the medieval fortress of the Bastille fell and the French Revolution roared to life. 👇

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14/. India also:. • Signed the India-US Civil Nuclear Deal in 2008, giving it access to global nuclear fuel markets. • Continues to invest in thorium-based nuclear reactors - a vision Bhabha outlined in the 1950s, given India's vast thorium reserves. While Indira Gandhi

13/. India then adopted a clear nuclear doctrine:.• No first use. • Credible minimum deterrence. • Civilian control of nuclear arsenal. Today, India:.• Operates 22 nuclear power reactors (more planned). • Has an estimated 160+ nuclear warheads. • Is part of

12/. Under PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India finally declared itself a nuclear weapons state on May 11 & 13, 1998. Five underground tests - including a thermonuclear device - were conducted in Pokhran. “India is now a nuclear weapon state. This is not a conferment that we seek; nor

11/. India kept its nuclear option open but adopted a policy of ambiguity for years. Meanwhile, several key developments occurred:.• Indira Gandhi authorized weaponization research. • Raja Ramanna, the architect of India's nuclear test, led BARC and shaped India's nuclear

10/. This test:.• Proved India's nuclear capabilities. • Angered Western nations (especially Canada and the U.S.). • Triggered sanctions and technology bans - including the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) formation. But it also signaled that India had mastered the nuclear

9/ . While Nehru had passed away in 1964, his successor Lal Bahadur Shastri, and later Indira Gandhi, began exploring a credible nuclear deterrent. On May 18, 1974, under Indira Gandhi's leadership, India conducted its first underground nuclear test in Pokhran, Rajasthan,

8/. And things changed drastically in the 1960s. 1. 1962 - India is humiliated in the war with China. A wake-up call for strategic planners. 2. 1964 - China conducts its first nuclear test. Suddenly, the idea of a “nuclear-armed neighbor” becomes real. 3. 1965 - Second war

7/ . All this happened long before India had nuclear weapons - it was about the peaceful uses of nuclear power. India's early nuclear programme was strictly for peaceful purposes - electricity, medicine, and research. But the seeds of dual-use technology (peaceful and.