1976
Chagai Test Site
PAEC under Munir Ahmad Khan surveys the Chagai region and selects the Ras Koh area for a possible future nuclear test.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Ras Koh in Pakistan. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
PAEC under Munir Ahmad Khan surveys the Chagai region and selects the Ras Koh area for a possible future nuclear test.
A. Q. Khan attends the Chagai tests after years of leading Pakistan's uranium-enrichment program.
Ishfaq Ahmad leads PAEC as Pakistan conducts the Chagai-I nuclear tests at the Ras Koh range.
Nawaz Sharif announces Pakistan's nuclear tests at Ras Koh in response to India's tests earlier that month.
Samar Mubarakmand is part of the senior technical team involved in preparing and conducting the Chagai-I tests.
Provenance
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