Historical Overview
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Prime minister and colloquially known as the father of nuclear weapons programme.
- Navaz Sharif, Pakistan's Prime Minister at that time,
- Abdus Salam, embarked the nuclear weapons program and director of Theoretical Physics Division
- Riazuddin, designer of Pakistan's thermo-nuclear devices.
- Asghar Qadir, led mathematical calculations involved in the nuclear devices.
- Munir Ahmad Khan, technical director and developed Pakistan's nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear weapons and energy programs.
- Ishfaq Ahmad, nuclear weapon designer and the Chairman of PAEC at that time.
- Abdul Qadeer Khan, developed the Centrifuge technology used in enriching uranium hexafluoride gas for Pakistan.
- Samar Mubarakmand, Director of Fast-Neutron Physics Group and supervised the atomic tests at Chagai
- Operation Shakti – India's nuclear test on 11 May 1998
- Chagai-II- Pakistan's second nuclear test on 30 May 1998
- Pakistan and Nuclear Weapons
- List of countries with nuclear weapons
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