Involvement in Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Programme

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   Abdus Salam knew the importance of nuclear technology in Pakistan. And, from the starting of the programme, Salam was a central figure in Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. In 1965, Abdus Salam led the establishing the prominent nuclear research institute—Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology. In 1965, the plutonium reactor Pakistan Atomic Research Reactor went critical under the leadership of Dr. Salam. In 1971, Abdus Salam had traveled to United States and returned, with loaded history books on Manhattan Project, to Pakistan. In 1972, Government of Pakistan learned about the India's nuclear weapon program, and Bhutto orchestrated to developed the programme. Former Prime minister, Mr. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, formed a group of nuclear scientists and engineers, initially headed by Abdus Salam. In 1972, Salam, as Science advisor to the President, had arranged a secret meeting of nuclear scientists to meet Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Multan, which is known as the Multan Meeting. Few months after the meeting, Salam, along with Munir Ahmad Khan and Riazuddin, met with Bhutto in his residence where the scientists have had briefed Bhutto about the nuclear weapons program. After the meeting, Salam and Munir Ahmad Khan were made the head of the nuclear weapons programme. Salam also had done the groundbreaking work of the "Theoretical Physics Group", which was initially headed by Salam until 1974.

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