Wazir Khan Khosa Test Site

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A backgrounder

Nuclear Threat Initiative

OTHER NAME: Wazir Khan Khoso; Chagai-2

LOCATION: Kharan Desert, NW Balochistan; 100km west of Ras Koh Test Site

SUBORDINATE TO: Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)

SIZE: Unknown

FACILITY STATUS: No further tests conducted

Responding to India's tests, and following its own nuclear tests at Ras Koh on 28 May 1998, Pakistan conducted an additional test at the Wazir Khan Khosa Test Site in the Kharan Desert. Afterwards, the U.S. intelligence community disagreed over the test's yield and whether the Ras Koh device was plutonium-based. No further tests have been conducted at this site.

See also

Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission