also have to roll back its programs at its national laboratories and cutting-edge research in nuclear technology as it was being useful in energy generation, medicines, agriculture, medical usage of lasers, electronics, supercomputing, nanotechnology, and communication technology. In 2010 interview with the news media, Butt also vehemently dismissed the American concerns about his nation's atomic weapons fall into the hands of terrorists as "farce claim" noting that they would be unable to select sequence targets to launch the missiles since they don't have required scientific education to understand the locking and triggering mechanism to activate nuclear devices. Publications and honors Bibliography </ref> Awards and honours Khwarizmi International Award (1995) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (1992) Gold Medal, Pakistan Academy of Sciences (1990) ICTP Award in Solid State Physics (1979) ICTP Award in Nuclear Physics (1970) See also Solid state physics References Online resources Living people 1936 births People from Sialkot Punjabi people Pakistani people of Kashmiri descent Murray College alumni Pakistani nuclear physicists Government College University, Lahore alumni Alumni of the University of Birmingham Pakistani expatriates in England Spectroscopists Project-706 people Academic staff of the Government College University, Lahore Academic staff of Quaid-i-Azam University People associated with the University of Birmingham People associated with CERN Fellows of Pakistan Academy of Sciences Pakistani textbook writers Recipients of Sitara-i-Imtiaz Pakistani science writers Pakistani inventors Nuclear weapons scientists and engineers