Posted on 06/23/2024 10:24:40 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
About an hour’s drive from the Las Vegas Strip, deep craters pockmark the desert sand for miles in every direction. It’s here, amid the sunbaked flats, that the United States conducted 928 nuclear tests during the Cold War above and below ground. The site is mostly quiet now, and has been since 1992, when Washington halted America’s testing program.
There are growing fears this could soon change. As tensions deepen in America’s relations with Russia and China, satellite images reveal all three nations are actively expanding their nuclear testing facilities, cutting roads and digging new tunnels at long-dormant proving grounds, including in Nevada.
None of these nations have conducted a full-scale nuclear test since the 1990s. Environmental and health concerns pushed them to move the practice underground in the middle of the last century, before abandoning testing altogether at the end of the Cold War.
Each government insists it will not be the one to reverse the freeze. Russia and China have said little about the recent flurry of construction at their testing sites, but the United States emphasizes it’s merely modernizing infrastructure for subcritical tests, or underground experiments that test components of a weapon but fall short of a nuclear chain reaction.
The possibility of resuming underground nuclear testing has long loomed over the post-Cold War world. But only now do those fears seem worryingly close to being realized amid the growing animosity among the world powers, the construction at testing grounds and the development of a new generation of nuclear weapons.
As this pressure mounts, some experts fear that the United States could act first. Ernest Moniz, a physicist who oversaw the nation’s nuclear complex as energy secretary under President Barack Obama, said there’s increasing interest from members of Congress, the military and U.S. weapons laboratories to begin full-scale explosive tests...
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DUH!
They’re telling us to get ready for what the Democrats have allowed in Iran, North Korea, and Pakistan. It’s been a done deal since Pakistan went nuclear. Shafting Khadaffi after he got rid of his sealed the deal.
No matter how low one thinks that the IQ of modern journalists might go, it’s never low enough.
Atomic testing in one’s own country, particularly underground testing, is not “atomic warfare”. What a stupid article.
If testing is resumed at the Mercury, NV site, maybe we’ll see some NYT writers huddled in one of those pathetic little protester camps alongside U.S. Highway 95, like there used to be back in the 80s. That would be funny.
First of all, that's just stupid, a pure straw man argument. I've never heard anyone with two surviving brain cells opine that Hiroshima and Nakasaki marked "the close of atomic warfare."
Second, anyone with the most limited grasp of world history understands that Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't just the end of WWII, they also were the beginning of WWIII.
So long as there are totalitarian ideologies with a Machiavellian streak (e.g., Progressivism and Muhammadanism), there will be threat of nuclear war.
Wow what a keen observation! Who knew?
Wait, what? We still have atomic weapons? Wow, those guys at the NYT don’t miss much, do they?
Never Forget in December 2022 when several spokespersons for the Biden Admin spoke about WINNING A LIMITED NUCLEAR CONFLICT with Russia. Never Forget the Woke Mind is in charge of Amerika.
“Threads” is a British movie from 1984 about how a nuclear war and its aftermath would go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhcrgQihRcs
Considering that the American population paid the price with all that above-ground testing, it wasn’t warfare, but slow murder.
They cry for the poor relocated islanders, but nothing for the untold numbers of US population that have had their lives shortened from cancers brought on radioactive fallout and pollution.
Fire up the WAR machine, we can’t have an election in November...
I use Brave on my phone and after one of your earlier texts I looked for it.
Can’t find it...
Must not be there then.
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