nuclear-news

U.S. conducted first subcritical nuclear test since September 2021

At left – underground test craters -Nevada

COMMENT. Alice Slater. We stopped nuclear testing in 1992 and Clinton promptly created a mew weapons program under the euphemism “stockpile stewardship” which incuded blowing up plutonium with explosives 1,000 ft below the desert floor on Western Shoshone holyland in Nevada which didn’t go critical so Clinton said it wasn’t a nuclear test!!!

Totally going backwards into WWIII and nuclear armageddon!! How could we!!??!!

 KYODO NEWS – May 18, 2024 – 

The United States conducted a subcritical nuclear test on Tuesday, the first since September 2021, a government agency said, in an apparent effort to bolster deterrence against countries such as China and Russia.

The experiment, the third under the administration of President Joe Biden, was carried out in Nevada to collect “essential data” regarding the country’s nuclear warheads, according to the National Nuclear Security Administration.

Although China and Russia, as well as Iran and North Korea, continue to expand their nuclear capabilities, the test is likely to trigger criticism as running counter to disarmament hopes in places such as Hiroshima, a Japanese city that was devastated by a U.S. atomic bomb during World War II…………………………

The United States suspended underground nuclear tests in 1992 and began subcritical nuclear tests five years later.

As subcritical nuclear tests do not result in a nuclear explosion, the United States has asserted that they are not prohibited under the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which the country has signed but not ratified……………

Tuesday’s test was the first in the “Nimble series,” carried out with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the NNSA said, adding it will continue the new cycle of experiments also with support from Los Alamos National Laboratory……………………  https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/05/7483d70178a7-update2-us-conducted-1st-subcritical-nuclear-test-since-sept-2021.html

May 20, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, weapons and war