The Biden administration just conducted a highly explosive experiment at a nuclear testing site in Nevada on Wednesday.
In a statement the Department of Energy wrote the test “used chemicals and radioisotopes to “validate new predictive explosion models” that can help detect atomic blasts in other countries.”
Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration Corey Hinderstein in separate statement shared “These experiments advance our efforts to develop new technology in support of U.S. nuclear nonproliferation goals.”
Hinderstein continued “They will help reduce global nuclear threats by improving the detection of underground nuclear explosive tests.”
NEW: US conducts nuclear test in Nevada hours after Russian move to revoke global test ban, Fox News reports
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JUST IN: The U.S. has conducted a nuclear test in Nevada, hours after Russia revoked their ban on atomic weapons testing.
Bloomberg reports that the test used radioisotopes and chemicals to “validate new predictive explosion models”
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Now let’s think for a moment the U.S. conducted the test so they could detect underground nuclear explosive tests better which makes one think will the U.S. start detecting to see if Iran or Russia has been secretly testing nuclear weapons and use it as a grounds to declare war?
US conducts Nuclear Test in Nevada hours after Russia scraps ratification of global treaty
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Fox News had these details to report:
The U.S. conducted a high-explosive experiment at a nuclear test site in Nevada hours after Russia revoked a ban on atomic-weapons testing, which Moscow said would put it on par with the United States.
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.
“These experiments advance our efforts to develop new technology in support of U.S. nuclear nonproliferation goals,” Corey Hinderstein, Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration, said in a statement. “They will help reduce global nuclear threats by improving the detection of underground nuclear explosive tests.
⚡️🇺🇸🇷🇺The United States conducted a nuclear test in Nevada a few hours after Russia's move to lift the global testing ban. pic.twitter.com/jN5RkLisV6
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Per KSNV:
The U.S. government says it tested a chemical explosion at the Nevada National Security Site this week as part of an effort to improve nuclear explosion detection.
A team led by the National Nuclear Security Administration conducted a “subsurface chemical explosion” on Wednesday, the Energy Department said in a news release.
The goal of the test is to improve the government’s ability to detect low-yield nuclear explosions.
“These experiments advance our efforts to develop new technology in support of U.S. nuclear nonproliferation goals,” Corey Hinderstein, NNSA’s Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, said in a statement. “They will help reduce global nuclear threats by improving the detection of underground nuclear explosive tests.”
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