Pakistan secretly carried out cold test of nuclear device on Oct 6, 1984

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ISLAMABAD: On October 6, 1984 -- two years after President General Ziaul Haq assured US President Ronald Reagan that Islamabad will not build a nuclear bomb -- Pakistan carried out a cold test of its nuclear bomb with 100% success.

A confidential letter dated 10 Dec 1984, addressed to President Ziaul Haq and written by Director Project Dr A Q Khan of Khan Research Laboratories Kahuta, shared the good news of confirmation of the successful test of Pakistan’s nuclear programme.

“My team and I are thus ready to carry out any task in this field at a very short notice which the President may wish to order,” read the latter, which speaks volumes about how intelligently late President Ziaul Haq helped built Pakistan nuclear programme despite the strong opposition of United States, India, Israel and others.

The letter, informed the then president:

“1. A cold test was performed on 6.10.84 with utmost secrecy and discreetness to check all the important parameters (time of initiation and total number of neutrons etc) of a nuclear weapon. Each and every component was manufactured by KRL engineers & scientists. Extensive instrumentation was done to record all the important signals/parameters.

“2. A 22-page report containing the minutest details, graphs, charts, oscillograph signal tracings, experimental set-up etc was given to 4 nuclear weapons experts on 26.11.84. After a thorough examination of it for 2 days, and then 4 hours of face to face discussions and cross-examination, they were pleased to confirm that ours was a 100% successful test, and had we put U235 as target instead of the high density tungsten alloy it would have been a highly successful nuclear explosion. My team and I are thus ready to carry out any task in this field at a very short notice which the President may wish to order…..”

Thursday newspapers while referring to the declassified documents of America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) revealed that late General Ziaul Haq had promised United States that he will not build a nuclear bomb.

Former US President Ronald Reagan, in his letter addressed to late Ziaul Haq, had expressed
his concerns over Pakistan’s nuclear programme. CIA documents stated that Zia, in his letter to Reagan, in 1982 had assured him that Pakistan had no intention of making nuclear weapons.

Zia wrote that he was saddened when the US ambassador told him that they had certified information of Pakistan making efforts for acquiring nuclear weapons. “The capabilities of Pakistan’s nuclear programme are limited and the objective of this propaganda is to divert the attention of the prevalent regional situation,” President Zia wrote to Reagan.

Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was the man who decided to make Pakistan a nuclear state and had initiated the work to achieve the goal. When he was removed through a military coup by General Ziaul Haq, there were apprehensions that the military regime will reverse the programme.

However, history proved that despite the strong opposition of US, India, Israel and other international players, late Ziaul Haq without being vocal on this particular issue was secretly pursuing country’s nuclear programme.

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/18...out-cold-test-of-nuclear-device-on-Oct-6-1984

 

[PaklovesTurkiye]

 

[v9s]

This is old news. Anyone who has done reading of our nuclear weapons programme is aware of this cold test. In '86, PAF was practicing nuclear weapon delivery bombing runs.

 

[Vortex]

Thanks to Buttho.. and thanks to Zia... It was very unfortunate that these two people didn't work together... Had they worked together, Pakistan would have been more advanced and stronger than today...

 

[Safriz]

Cold test tunnel near sargodha

 

[Zee-shaun]

That's common knowledge now.

 

[shhh]

26.11.84

This reminded me of something.
If you know what I mean

 

[ghazi52]

 

[Cyberian]

Pakistan's first cold test was carried out on March 11, 1983 under "Project 706".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project-706

 

[somebozo]

Thanks to Buttho.. and thanks to Zia... It was very unfortunate that these two people didn't work together... Had they worked together, Pakistan would have been more advanced and stronger than today...

Bhutto the dictator destroyed Pakistan, dismembered it..and above all exposed its otherwise secret nuclear ambitions..the only regret is that Bhutto wasn't executed earlier along with Mujeeb..because the intelligence community could not read their minds...

 

[MastanKhan]

Pakistan's first cold test was carried out on March 11, 1983 under "Project 706".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project-706

Hi,

That is more like the year and date---on inquiry my uncle told the other uncle with a smile on his face---we have achieved our goal---and that was a few months before I came to the U S in 1983.

 

[Jinn Baba]

According to wikipedia:

"Sub-critical (or cold) tests are any type of tests involving nuclear materials and possibly high-explosives (like those mentioned above) that purposely result in no yield. The name refers to the lack of creation of a critical mass of fissile material. They are the only type of tests allowed under the interpretation of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty tacitly agreed to by the major atomic powers.[5][6] Sub-critical tests continue to be performed by the United States, Russia, and the People's Republic of China, at least."

Could someone please explain that if a cold test has no yield and lacks critical mass, how then can one be sure that a device only tested by this method would create a full nuclear explosion if needed? hope that made sense

 

[GumNaam]

Old news man, its common knowledge in the intel community that Pakistan has been a nuclear weapons state for over 40 years now.

 

[Vortex]

Bhutto the dictator destroyed Pakistan, dismembered it..and above all exposed its otherwise secret nuclear ambitions..the only regret is that Bhutto wasn't executed earlier along with Mujeeb..because the intelligence community could not read their minds...

Whatever they did, at least recognize it : they gave it to Pakistan.

 

[krash]

Thanks to Buttho.. and thanks to Zia... It was very unfortunate that these two people didn't work together... Had they worked together, Pakistan would have been more advanced and stronger than today...

Yea.......the first, a self-serving, power hungry nepotist, who obliterated our then thriving industry and economy and the second, an illiterate Islamist usurper, who injected extremism into the fabric of this then very progressive and peaceful nation......I see what you mean.

According to wikipedia:

"Sub-critical (or cold) tests are any type of tests involving nuclear materials and possibly high-explosives (like those mentioned above) that purposely result in no yield. The name refers to the lack of creation of a critical mass of fissile material. They are the only type of tests allowed under the interpretation of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty tacitly agreed to by the major atomic powers.[5][6] Sub-critical tests continue to be performed by the United States, Russia, and the People's Republic of China, at least."

Could someone please explain that if a cold test has no yield and lacks critical mass, how then can one be sure that a device only tested by this method would create a full nuclear explosion if needed? hope that made sense

The parameters are all kept the same with one variable changed and the results are then measured which allow us to draw strong inferences about the results if that variable were to be changed. For example, you can use a crash test dummy to very accurately determine what would happen to a human skull when in a particular type of car accident. You wouldn't need to put an actual human in the car. Very basic testing methodology, from mathematics to physics.