Pakistan's Nuclear Facilities

Chagai Hills

Pakistan's nuclear test site. First used on May 28, 1998.

Golra

Possible uranium enrichment R&D facility/pilot plant. Like many other sites in Pakistan, it is not subject to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Isa Khel Chasma

Large plutonium extraction plant, civil works complete, and a Chinese-supplied nuclear power reactor in early stages of construction.

Kahuta

Khan Research Laboratory. Enrichment plant designed to produce steady supply of weapons-grade uranium for nuclear devices.

Karachi

Canadian-supplied nuclear power reactor.

Khusab

Plutonium production reactor under construction. If completed, in conjunction with the plutonium extraction plants, it could create a significant inventory of unsafeguarded weapons-usable plutonium.

Rawalpindia

Pakistani Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology. Laboratory and a not-yet-operational plutonium extraction plant.

Sargodha

M-11 surface-to-surface missile storage facility.

Tarwanah

Missile production factory.