Chagai-I
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Chagai-I is the code name of five simultaneous underground nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan on 28 May 1998 at 15:15 PKT. The tests were performed at Ras Koh Hills in the Chagai District of Balochis
The dust expulsion from the Ras Koh Hills following the underground nuclear detonation
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
Ras Koh Range
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The Ras Koh Range is a granite mountain range located between the districts of Chagai and Kharan of Balochistan in Pakistan.
Chagai-I
…Chagai-I is the code name of five simultaneous underground nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan on 28 May 1998 at 15:15 PKT. The tests were performed at Ras Koh Hills in the Chagai District of Balochistan Province. Chagai-I was Pakistan's first public test of nuclear weapons. Its timing was a direct response to India's…
Aerial picture of Ras Koh Range provided by ISS Mission in 2014.