Pranab Rebatiranjan Dastidar (10 July 1933 – 11 February 2022) was an Indian electronics engineer and

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. He was a director of

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. Dastidar led the Electronic Detonation System in Smiling Buddha project, India's first ever nuclear bomb test. He received Padma Shri in 1975. He died at California on 11 February 2022.

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