1974
Uranium Enrichment
Abdul Qadeer Khan begins work that contributes to Pakistan's uranium-enrichment capability.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Kahuta in Pakistan. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Abdul Qadeer Khan begins work that contributes to Pakistan's uranium-enrichment capability.
A. Q. Khan takes a leading role in the centrifuge-based uranium-enrichment project that develops at Kahuta.
Zia-ul-Haq renames the Engineering Research Laboratories as Khan Research Laboratories in recognition of A. Q. Khan's work.
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