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Munir Ahmad Khan
Munir Ahmad Khan
(; b. 20 May 1926 – 22 April 1999;
NI
HI
), was a
Pakistani
nuclear engineer
and a
nuclear physicist
, who served as the chairman of the
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission
(PAEC) from 1972 to 1991. He is credited among the persons who are called as "father of the Pakistan's
atomic bomb project
", for their role in Pakistan's integrated atomic bomb project— the clandestine
Cold war
program. Khan was technical director of the programme to develop
nuclear weapons
, which lead to the
Chagai-I
nuclear testing
in May 1998 in
Balochistan
.
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