WASHINGTON (REUTERS) -China may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclear test explosions despite claiming to observe an international pact banning such blasts, the US State Department said in a report on Wednesday (April 15) that could fuel US-Chinese tensions.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON -China may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclear test explosions despite claiming to observe an international pact banning such blasts, the US State Department said in a report on Wednesday that could fuel US-Chinese tensions.
Zero yield refers to a nuclear test in which there is no explosive chain reaction of the type ignited by the detonation of a nuclear warhead. The 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty allows activities designed to ensure the safety of nuclear weapons. "The pace and manner by which the Chinese government is modernising its stockpile is worrying, destabilising, and illustrates why China should be brought into the global arms control framework," said the senior US official on condition of anonymity.
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