Pickaxe Mountain revives the Kahuta question: Could India have hit Pakistan’s nuclear leap?
At the heart of the conflict, which has had wide-ranging effects across the world, is Iran’s desire to develop nuclear weapons.Both the United States and Israel have been working to deny Iran this capability. The facility was once again struck during the opening days of the current conflict.But these attacks were not the first of their kind. The heavy water was considered critical to Germany’s nuclear weapons programme.Commando operations, air raids and sabotage were used to target the facility.
- ▪At the heart of the conflict, which has had wide-ranging effects across the world, is Iran’s desire to develop nuclear weapons.Both the United States and Israel have been working to deny Iran this capability.
- ▪The facility was once again struck during the opening days of the current conflict.But these attacks were not the first of their kind.
- ▪The heavy water was considered critical to Germany’s nuclear weapons programme.Commando operations, air raids and sabotage were used to target the facility.
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News/Defence News/Pickaxe Mountain revives the Kahuta question: Could India have crippled Pakistan’s nuclear leap?Pickaxe Mountain revives the Kahuta question: Could India have crippled Pakistan’s nuclear leap?Dhruv Yadav / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Jul 27, 2026, 17:27 ISTCommentsShareAA+Text SizeSmallMediumLarge An IAF Jaguar fighter dropping bombs during a live fire exercise. (Image credit: IAF) As the conflict in West Asia nears the five-month mark, US President Donald Trump has once again threatened to target the now-famous Pickaxe Mountain, a location at the heart of the current conflict.It is deep within the man-made tunnels of this mountain that Iran has hidden its nuclear facilities, quite literally out of reach of the Americans or the Israelis.
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