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The nuclear weapons tests of Pakistan refers to a test programme directed towards the development of nuclear explosives and investigation of the effects of nuclear explosions. The programme was suggested by Munir Ahmad Khan , chairman of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), as early as 1977.
Pakistan's uranium infrastructure is based on the use of gas centrifuges to produce highly enriched uranium (HEU) at the Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) at Kahuta. [3] Responding to India's nuclear test in 1974, Munir Khan launched the uranium program, codename Project-706 under the aegis of the PAEC. [109]
Chagai-I was Pakistan's first public test of nuclear weapons. China's supply of a nuclear reactor in 1993 and nuclear technology prior to that for the Chashma Nuclear Power Plant helped to achieve it. Its timing was a direct response to India's second nuclear test Pokhran-II, on 11 and 13 May 1998.
Pakistan's gas fields are only expected to last for about another 20 years at the most due to heavy industrial usage. [12] [13] The Largest Gas Producing province of Pakistan is Baluchistan. The Sui gas field is the biggest natural gas field in Pakistan. It is near Sui in Balochistan. The gas field was discovered in the late 1952 and the ...
By the end of 1983, ERL/KRL under Qadeer Khan, claimed to carry out the first cold test of a single nuclear device but this is debated as the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission had also carried out a first cold test of a working nuclear device on 11 March 1983. Although, PAEC did not use weapon grade plutonium or uranium in their test, KRL's ...
2004 – DeepC, an autonomous underwater vehicle propelled by an electric motor powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. 2005 – Ionic liquid piston compressor. 2013 – The first commercial 2 megawatt power to gas installation in Falkenhagen comes online for 360 cubic meters of hydrogen per hour hydrogen storage into the natural gas grid. [25]
Natural gas production is at a relatively high level and remaining reserves are estimated to be about 885.3 billion cu m (1 January 2009 est.). Pakistan's gas fields are only expected to last for about another 20 years at the most due to heavy industrial usage. [10] [11] The Sui gas field is the biggest natural gas field in Pakistan.
A boot sector computer virus dubbed (c)Brain, one of the first computer viruses in history, [16] was created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written. [17] [18] Neurochip by Pakistani-Canadian inventor Naweed Syed.