Chagai-I
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Chagai-I is the code name of five simultaneous underground nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan at 15:15 hrs PKT on 28 May 1998. The tests were performed at Ras Koh Hills in the Chagai District of Balochistan Province.
Chagai-I
PAEC's scientists chose sites at the high-altitude granite mountain ranges with extreme hot weather.
The PAEC weapon testing team at Koh Kambaran, with team leader Samar Mubarakmand (right of the man in the blue beret), Tariq Salija, Irfan Burney, and Tasneem Shah. The better known A. Q. Khan of Kahuta Research Laboratories (KRL) is left of the man in the blue beret (who may be General Zulfikar Ali).
Commemorative monument at the Faizabad Interchange in Islamabad
Pokhran-II
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The Pokhran-II tests were a series of five nuclear bomb test explosions conducted by India at the Indian Army's Pokhran Test Range in May 1998. It was the second instance of nuclear testing conducted by India; the first test, code-named Smiling Buddha, was conducted in May 1974.
A cylindrical shaped nuclear bomb, Shakti I, prior to its detonation.
During the 1998 Indian general election, BJP's Atal Bihari Vajpayee promised to carry out nuclear tests.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam headed the team of scientists and engineers for the nuclear explosion.
The Thar Desert in the state of Rajasthan where the nuclear site, the Pokhran Test Range, is located.