The U.S. conducted a high-explosive experiment at a nuclear test site in Nevada hours after Russia revoked a ban on nuclear weapons testing.
Wednesday’s test used chemicals and radioisotopes to validate new predictive explosion models”\ that can help detect atomic blasts in other countries, Bloomberg reported, citing the Department of Energy.
Russian lawmakers announced their intention to revoke the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The US tests were conducted hours after members of the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, voted to withdraw ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibits any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion anywhere in the world.
Here is a 149 page copy of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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Time to dust off a couple of old Wang Cannon articles?
What´s the point using radioisotopes in a chemical explosion? To use them as a probe to follow the detonation dynamics?
What´s the point using radioisotopes in a chemical explosion? To use them as a probe to follow the detonation dynamics?
So, what this article tells me is that Russia had made a law to comply with the test ban, and the Parliament had to repel it.
The US didn’t even have that. And simply because Russia repelled the test ban, the US effectively tested a nuclear weapon?
Maybe I have read something wrong.
Ok, the article is too superficial on what exactly the US did. Not a “nuclear test” as in a nuclear explosion. Apparently a subcritical (no chain reaction) test.
Which the US and Russia never stopped doing, just at the limits of the nuclear test ban treaty.
That’s much better.