What the records say
- When
- 30 May 1998
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 18
- Where
- Kharan
- Coordinates
- 28.49° N, 63.78° E
- Yield kt
- 0–18
- Type
- ug
- Purpose
- weapons development programme
- Body wave magnitude
- 5
- Reported by
- HFS
2 sources record it
- Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A second nuclear test, codenamed Chagai-II, is conducted and supervised by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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