Portal:Pakistan/This week in history

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• 28 May 1998 - The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission carried out five underground nuclear tests at the Chagai test site at 3:16 p.m. (PST) on the afternoon of May 28, 1998. The yield of the tests was reported to be 40 kt. Following the tests, the then Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif addressed the nation via Pakistan's government channel PTV and congratulated the entire nation.

• 1 June 1998 - Pakistan's top nuclear scientist, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, said in an interview that Pakistan was the first between the neighbours to have successfully enriched uranium by 90 per cent in 1982, and that Pakistan had conducted a large number of cold tests and established that their nuclear weapon design could work.^{[1] [2]}