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Khushab
Khushab (punjabi: خُوشاب) is a city as well as a district of Sargodha Division, located in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The word Khushab means "sweet water." Khushab city also serves as the headquarters of Khushab Tehsil, an administrative subdivision of the Khushab district. It is the 77th most populous city of Pakistan.
Pakistan and weapons of mass destruction
Pakistani nuclear weapons program
Kirana Hills
hill in Pakistan
Ministry of Defence
Pakistani government ministry responsible for military and national defence matters
Kahuta
thumb|Scenery in Kahuta Kahuta (Punjabi, Urdu: ) is a census-designated place, city and tehsil in the Rawalpindi District of Punjab, Pakistan. The population of the Kahuta Tehsil is approximately 220,576 at the 2017 census. Kahuta is the home to the Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL) which was founded to undertake the Kahuta Project as part of the atomic bomb project. Before the Kahuta Project, the site was occupied by retired officers of the Pakistan Army and contained a small public community.
Raziuddin Siddiqui
Pakistani physicist (1908-1998)
Khan Research Laboratories
Pakistan military laboratory complex
Project-706
Project-706, also known as Project-786 was the codename of a research and development program to develop Pakistan's first nuclear weapons. The program was initiated by Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1974 in response to the Indian nuclear tests conducted in May 1974. During the course of this program, Pakistani nuclear scientists and engineers developed the requisite nuclear infrastructure and gained expertise in the extraction, refining, processing and handling of fissile material with the ultimate goal of designing a nuclear device. These objectives were achieved by the early 1980s wit
National Command Authority
nuclear command and control authority of Pakistan
Youm-e-Takbir
Youm-e-Takbir (; lit. The day of greatness) is celebrated as a national day in Pakistan on 28 May in commemoration of Chagai-I and Chagai-II series of nuclear tests. The nuclear tests made Pakistan the seventh nation to possess nuclear weapons and the first in the Muslim world.
Ras Koh Hills
Pakistan Ministry of Defense range in Balochistan