Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Development Program

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Pakistan's nuclear weapons program was initially developed to counter India following India's 1974 nuclear test. Under the leadership of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the program evolved into an 'Islamic bomb' initiative aimed at spreading nuclear technology to other Muslim nations, including Iran. The program involved supplying critical gas centrifuge technology and possibly nuclear weapons blueprints to Iran in the early 1990s, significantly advancing Tehran's atomic program.