Youm-e-Takbeer: Strategic Deterrence, Regional Balance, and the Legacy of Pakistan’s Nuclear Tests
(By Khalid Masood) At 15:15 hours on May 28, 1998, the granite and sand of the Ras Koh Hills in Balochistan’s Chagai District shuddered with five simultaneous underground detonations that instantly redrawn the geopolitical map of South Asia. In that searing moment, Pakistan crossed the nuclear threshold—codenaming the operation Chagai-I—followed two days later by a…