THREATS AFTER MATH OF TESTING NUCLREAR WEAPONS OF PAKISTAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM
PRESENTATION REPORT: THREATS AFTER MATH OF TESTING NUCLREAR WEAPONS OF PAKISTAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM STUDENT: SYEDA NAZIA HASSAN ZAIDI PAKISTAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM BRIEF HISTORY Pakistan's nuclear weapons program was established in 1972 by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who founded the program while he was Minister for Fuel, Power and Natural Resources, and later became President and Prime Minister. Shortly after the loss of East Pakistan in the 1971 war with India, Bhutto initiated the program with a meeting of physicists and engineers at Multan in January 1972. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto announced: If India builds the bomb, we will eat grass and leaves for a thousand years, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own. The Christians have the bomb, the Jews have the bomb and now the Hindus have the bomb. Why not the Muslims too have the bomb? India's 1974 testing of a nuclear "device" gave Pakistan's nuclear program new momentum. Through the late 1970s, Pakistan's program acqu...