U.S. may soon begin nuclear tests if Trump gives the go-ahead

The Pentagon believes that within a few months the United States may begin nuclear testing. And preparations for them will begin as soon as the country's president gives the relevant order.

Mitchell announced this and during a speech at the institute yesterday. about. United States Under Secretary of Defense Nuclear Affairs Drew Walter.

The official believes that preparation will not take much time:

I think this can happen fast enough.

Walter explained that although it would be possible to prepare and carry out the first nuclear explosion within a few months, such tests would provide the most minimal data. To get a sufficient amount of information, you need a whole program that will take several years. And to resume such a nuclear program, which was frozen back in 1992, only the order of Donald Trump is missing.

Earlier in the American newspaper Washington Post, information appeared from senior officials from the US administration that a meeting was held on May 15 to discuss the possibility of the United States restarting nuclear tests. The reason for such a discussion was the data on the allegedly conducted tests of low power nuclear charges by Russia and China.

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[aszzz888]

The Pentagon believes that within a few months the United States may begin nuclear testing.

And the box that Pandora opens more and more. And in this the mericatos succeed like no other. (And there they will want to experience Israel, Pakistan, North Korea and off and on!)

[Cyclop]

Quote: aszzz888

And the box that Pandora opens more and more. And in this the mericatos succeed like no other.

The USA is nervous, nobody is especially afraid of them, and Russia is at the head of this!

Quote: Dmitry Potapov

Well, what did Judas (Mikhail SerGeevich Gorbachev) understand now with whom you agreed and that these agreements are worth it !?

This marked Judas opened the "Pandora's box" .. How to close it? Here's the challenge ..

[novel66]

close hardly beat only if ..

[Terenin]

Quote: novel xnumx

close hardly beat only if ..

Roman, they, the USA, have already sold nails from Pandora's box "cheaply" to the European Union

[novel66]

about to nail I did not mean a box there the sentence has a dual interpretation

[cniza]

It may happen if they don’t understand well ...

[Tatyana]

Earlier in the American newspaper The Washington Post, information came from senior officials from the US administration that a meeting was held on May 15 to discuss the possibility of the United States restarting nuclear tests. The reason for this discussion was the data on allegedly conducted by Russia and China tests of low-power nuclear charges.

And this is what supposedly in the US State Department "The reason for such a discussion was the DATA about the TESTS allegedly carried out by Russia and China low-power nuclear charges " - How shoud I understand this?

[Cyclop]

Quote: Tatiana

But this, that allegedly in the US State Department, "THE REASON for such a discussion was the DATA on the TESTS of low-power nuclear warheads allegedly carried out by Russia and China" - how do you understand?

By 200 charges, another 100 will be delivered in Europe, and maybe Kazakhstan .. There everything is muddy among the Kazakhs!

[Cyclop]

Quote: novel xnumx

close hardly beat only if ..

Obviously, it will not do without it, it’s necessary to wet it ..
I recently read that someone had predicted a civil war in the USA .. It sounds fantastic, but everything can be .. The main thing is to find the moment and throw the lit match in time, how they do it in Eurasia all the time!

[novel66]

turn to the classics

[AnderS]

The main thing is to find the moment and throw the lit match in time

Who will throw it? Our scammers, on the contrary, are throwing loot there for the time being with shovels, they are determining the children for study and residence and buying up real estate. So they will rather extinguish burning matches with all their might

[Catholic]

Quote: Ciklop

How to close it? Here is the task

The task is almost impossible. To close the box, it is necessary that the states play in the box, but this is unfortunately not yet in sight ...

[K-612-O]

Not Israel, not Pakistan, much less the DPRK did not sign the non-proliferation treaty, and even less so the CTBT. And Germany, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Saudi (Pakistani charges), Turkey and theoretically Algeria with Egypt can want to make and test for a vaping during the year.

[aszzz888]

K-612-O (Andrey) Today, 10: 18
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Not Israel, not Pakistan, much less DPRK did not sign the non-proliferation treaty

This is not about "spreading", but about TESTING

The Pentagon believes that within a few months the United States may start nuclear testsя

And the second aspect - Israel OFFICIALLY has a nuclear weapon. NO!

[K-612-O]

So they did not sign the CTBT. Officially not, but if they use it. And they tested it perfectly in South Africa.

[novel66]

this is especially sweet. everyone knows that there is and they know that everyone knows, and everyone knows that they know that everyone knows ... but, damn it, politeness

[5-9]

Yes, maybe really not ....

[Sergej1972]

Knowing the programs of the leading parties in Germany, it can be argued that Germany is not threatened. And thank God.

[Terenin]

U.S. may soon begin nuclear tests if Trump gives good

"interesting" country - America, give "good"to be closer to Hell

[novel66]

Protestant ethics ... Gene, hello!

[Terenin]

Quote: novel xnumx

Protestant ethics ... Gene, hello!

Roma
Especially very much to believe that for them "wealth is not for pleasure ..." and "honesty in entrepreneurship ...", as part of the Protestant ethics

[novel66]

wow, what a pleasure ... would have refused to give a fuck, but since God ordered ...

[figwam]

Quote: Terenin

"interesting" country - America, give the go-ahead to be closer to Hell

So the devilish country hails from there.

[Cyclop]

Quote: Terenin

U.S. may soon begin nuclear tests if Trump gives good

"interesting" country - America, give "good"to be closer to Hell

Their nuclear weapons are outdated, everyone hoped for AUG and political chatter and threats .. So they began to stir! From the program "open skies" unilaterally left ..)))) Like the Russians will not see what they are up to!
PS By the way, in Europe there are about 200 US nuclear weapons, in violation of all the norms and agreements .. Could something stir up again in Cuba? To understand how wrong they are ..

[Vol4ara]

Quote: Ciklop

Quote: Terenin

U.S. may soon begin nuclear tests if Trump gives good

"interesting" country - America, give "good"to be closer to Hell

Their nuclear weapons are outdated, everyone hoped for AUG and political chatter and threats .. So they began to stir! From the program "open skies" unilaterally left ..)))) Like the Russians will not see what they are up to!
PS By the way, in Europe there are about 200 US nuclear weapons, in violation of all the norms and agreements .. Could something stir up again in Cuba? To understand how wrong they are ..

To ruin the federation this time?

[Angel_and_Demon]

Quote: Terenin

U.S. may soon begin nuclear tests if Trump gives good

"interesting" country - America, give "good"to be closer to Hell

Are they far away?

[cniza]

Quote: Terenin

"interesting" country - America, give "good"to be closer to Hell

And not only to them, but to everyone else ...

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: Terenin

"interesting" country - America,

Yeah. God created the Earth, and the devil created the USA on earth, a country with pathological hatred of all humanity and an unbridled desire to rule the whole world. Only when the Stalin Strait is formed on the site of the United States, humanity will breathe calmly and begin to live quietly, trade and build. At the site of this building, in the photograph for the article, a large nuclear funnel arising from their tests would not have looked bad.

[5-9]

Come on .... the United States has long been a friend of Russia, as far as possible between countries ... it’s another matter that power was seized there after WWII by very unpleasant personalities of a global scale ... but today there are only states that can resist globalists RF ... yes the USA ... (China is under a very big issue) the battle between statists and globalists is taking place just inside the USA ... and the RF .. and China. I do not say how the USSR and the USA, with loud insults against each other, essentially quietly decided the fate of other countries. The world is more complex than it seems and with what I described ...

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: 5-9

Come on .... The United States has long been a friend of Russia, as far as possible between countries ...

There were. Moreover, the independence of the British colonies in America was also obtained thanks to the position of Russia, when it refused to send its expeditionary force to Great Britain. However, the mattresses tightly forgot that period and even that when they elected their first president, Crimea was already Russian. And in general, it was not Russia that embarked on a path of enmity with the United States, namely, the United States embarked on a path of enmity with Russia.

[5-9]

Nuuuuu ..... The independence of the United States was won by the French army and the French fleet and the slightly Spanish army and navy .... we were in a state of unfriendly neutrality, like the Netherlands. But in the Civil they we, the Yankees, saved them from the Ango-Frankish invasion

[Catholic]

Quote: Terenin

"interesting" country - America, winked give the go-ahead to be closer to Hell am crying

The USA is a product of hell. Therefore, they strive to be closer to hell.

[Civil]

Wow, Eighties returned again:
1. There is a cold war with the West.
2. The arms race.
3. Again there is a confrontation of countries on political systems. For example, Venezuela from the USA.
4. The country is in decline, the disappointment of the masses in the system.
5. Power in one party.
6. The war in the Middle East.
7. Aging leadership.
8. Problems with oil.
9. Sanctions.

[Terenin]

Quote: Civil

Wow, the Eighties are back again:

Vadim, more precisely, we were returned

[cniza]

Everything is repeated, but it may end very badly ...

[Vadim237]

Russia does not conduct an arms race and will not begin.

[Dmitry Potapov]

Well, what did Judas (Mikhail SerGeevich Gorbachev) understand now with whom you agreed and that these agreements are worth it !?

[aszzz888]

Dmitry Potapov (Dmitry Potapov) Today, 10: 09
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Well, what did Judas (Mikhail SerGeevich Gorbachev) understand now with whom you agreed and that these agreements are worth it !?

Dmitry! Unfortunately, one cannot reach this tagged one, it is living out in a meritosia ... Crying for him is a device for climbing mountains!

[novel66]

Of course, then I understood. when the order was fulfilling

[Terenin]

Quote: Dmitry Potapov

Well, what did Judas (Mikhail SerGeevich Gorbachev) understand now with whom you agreed and that these agreements are worth it !?

And for him (Gorbi) it’s normal, this is the cost of a bribe in the form of a Nobel Prize

[cniza]

And what does he understand, he already walks with one foot in parallel ...

[Catholic]

Quote: Dmitry Potapov

Well, what did Judas (Mikhail SerGeevich Gorbachev) understand now with whom you agreed and that these agreements are worth it !?

This labeled creature did not understand anything and does not want to understand.

[Mountain shooter]

There is only one player on the planet who changes the rules, as and when he wants, especially if he starts to lose ... The tests themselves, if they are underground, and not by megatons, are not particularly dangerous. Rather, it is psychology. The "threshold of applicability" is decreasing ...

[K-612-O]

Yes, even megatons are also especially okay if underground.

[novel66]

how creeps out of the ground what a terrible coronovirus

[K-612-O]

It does not depend on the charge power, and the adit is sealed.

[novel66]

on cracks and hydraulic fractures will go away

[K-612-O]

What cracks and hydraulic fractures ? !!! Everything in basalt remains

[novel66]

anyway - I am against nuclear tests, existing warheads, and that's enough

[K-612-O]

All is against, but everyone is preparing

[Altona]

Quote: novel xnumx

how creeps out of the ground what a terrible coronovirus

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Everything radioactive has a half-life and will sometime decay. The sun, by the way, is also radioactive.

[Vol4ara]

Quote: Altona

Quote: novel xnumx

how creeps out of the ground what a terrible coronovirus

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Everything radioactive has a half-life and will sometime decay. The sun, by the way, is also radioactive.

[Albert1988]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

The tests themselves, if underground, and not megatons, do not represent anything particularly dangerous.

Let's estimate - groundwater contamination, emissions of a large amount of radioactive dust into the atmosphere ... So I repeat - is it okay?

[Mountain shooter]

Quote: Albert1988

Let's estimate - groundwater contamination, emissions of a large amount of radioactive dust into the atmosphere ... So I repeat - is it okay?

The explosions are underground. The depth of the mines is large. No dust emission is foreseen ... Groundwater in the basalt massif? Not an indisputable statement. Therefore, I repeat. (Do not read those suffering from radiophobia!) - Nothing PHYSICALLY terrible will happen. Worse is the HABITNESS of such an action.

[Albert1988]

I will clarify that:

Quote: Mountain Shooter

The explosions are underground.

и

Quote: Mountain Shooter

The depth of the mines is large

These are slightly different types of nuclear explosions! Since you can explode at a depth of a dozen meters, or you can steam hundreds or more - the effect will be different ...
How, what and where the Americans will blow up - that’s the main question!

[Mountain shooter]

[quote = Alb ert1988] a dozen meters, or a couple of hundred or more - the effect will be different ...
How, what and where the Americans will blow up - this is the main question [/ quote]
They blew up a lot for a long time. It’s scary to look at their landfill. But nothing came out and radioactive clouds did not roam the United States ... They are of course stupid, but not so

[Albert1988]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

They blew up a lot for a long time. It’s scary to look at their landfill. But nothing came out and radioactive clouds did not roam the United States ... They are of course stupid, but not so

And on Bikini Atoll, too, nothing escaped? No, if they are only small charges and at great depths and in their territory - then that's okay ...

[knn54]

There would be a desire, but there is a reason.
The word JACOB is becoming very popular among Anglo-Saxon politicians.

[GMM]

We must give a symmetrical answer, then we will detonate the bomb at the Semipalatinsk test site :)

[novel66]

only first you need to ask the Kazakhs

[cniza]

Yeah, and the answer is ash for the early ...

[Altona]

A couple of questions immediately arise, what will be tested - existing or newly wound by centrifuges? And the second question, it seems to me that part of the nuclear technology was lost by the Americans a long time ago after the death of the Cold War cadaver, where mountains of conventional and unconventional weapons of mass destruction were accumulated. Keeping and maintaining all these enrichment plants for 30 years in a relatively peaceful era is still costly, especially since it was possible to get it from Russia through "mountains-chernomyrdin" deals.

[Vol4ara]

Quote: Altona

A couple of questions immediately arise, what will be tested - existing or newly wound by centrifuges? And the second question, it seems to me that part of the nuclear technology was lost by the Americans a long time ago after the death of the Cold War cadaver, where mountains of conventional and unconventional weapons of mass destruction were accumulated. Keeping and maintaining all these enrichment plants for 30 years in a relatively peaceful era is still costly, especially since it was possible to get it from Russia through "mountains-chernomyrdin" deals.

How is this lost? Did the archives suddenly evaporate? In the 40s, it means they could work it out, with a pencil and a slide rule in their hands, but now they have become dumb and forgot everything? Do not entertain your hopes ... This is ridiculous and you have to pay dearly for frivolity

[cniza]

It is quite like a lunar program, engines, etc ..

[Vol4ara]

Quote: cniza

It is quite like a lunar program, engines, etc ..

And what is wrong with the lunar program or with the engines? Everything is there and everything works, they don’t fly not because they forgot it, and because it’s dangerous, it rolled several times, and then one shuttle fell off, the other, they were initially dangerous, but so far everything was lucky. Do you prefer to fly on an airplane that flies, which is your own, but sometimes it falls, or buy from a neighbor the one that never falls while you finish your file?

[Glory1974]

And what is wrong with the lunar program or with the engines? Everything is there and everything works,

With the engine for the lunar program, this is not so.
It has a large combustion chamber, in which it is impossible to maintain stable combustion. They did not know this before, after the flight the Americans decided that they had found an option. But the laws of physics cannot be deceived. Therefore, the United States says that the drawings are lost, that the technology is expensive to restore, but in fact the engine they claimed to fly to the Moon violates the laws of physics, and therefore cannot exist.

[Vadim237]

This problem with unstable combustion on single-chamber rocket engines in the 60s partially solved.

[Glory1974]

Partially - this means nothing. In a large volume, it is physically impossible to achieve sustainable combustion, in any case using modern technologies.

[5-9]

It doesn’t break .... but in the 60s there was neither a mathematical apparatus, nor computing power to calculate ... today in theory you can make a similar engine, but in practice it does not work out yet ... if you exclude the version of divine intervention or 1 / 1000000 probability that it turned out by chance - none of the people flew to the moon

[Albert1988]

Quote: Vol4ara

And what is wrong with the lunar program or with the engines?

Also. as with the Abrams - the production was curtailed, the plants were demolished, the equipment was dismantled, specialists were already old.

[bk0010]

Quote: Vol4ara

How is this lost?

Oh, this is a very interesting story. Firms dealing with these issues in the states went bankrupt and were bought by Toshiba and Rosatom. Look for information yourself, no one believes retelling.

[Altona]

Quote: Vol4ara

How is this lost? Did the archives suddenly evaporate?

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Hold and contain all these plants
Do you read a comment, which you then comment on, or are you occupied with narcissism? I wrote about the factories, not about the archives.

[5-9]

The United States has no centrifuges and never had. They used a miserable gas diffusion method, which is 4-10 times less effective than centrifuges, but this plant was closed ... just because of dumping of our uranium under the Gor-Chernomyrdin program (the funny thing is that when we diluted under this program HEU and sent LEU for a penny to the USA, centrifuges on Canadian ore continued to spin and our supply of HEU did not decrease). There are centrifuges in the USA, but this is YURENKO’s private European plant, they don’t make HEU .....
this is a brief history of how the United States lost its nuclear polymers ....

[rocket757]

U.S. may soon begin nuclear tests if Trump gives the go-ahead

In principle, our military claims that there are not enough full-scale tests to fully evaluate the state of our nuclear potential .... but this, as they correctly noted, is a Pandora’s box !!! which is not worth opening!

[cniza]

Now, it’s easy to start, it will be very difficult to stop, if at all possible ...

[rocket757]

The question is not idle! And it’s better to remain in the theoretical plane than they will begin to check it in kind.

[cniza]

How to put this in the head of the United States and Trump in particular ...

[rocket757]

Give the command to "department, Schaub agent Trump did not overdo it" !!!

[cniza]

And what? I like this idea...

[rocket757]

Yes to us at a joke of striped little feds, to care, to have fun!

[cniza]

Let them create new commissions, appoint specials. prosecutors and go ...

[rocket757]

Here, here, and I about the same. Add some more fun to their circus! They love the show, let it be SHOW SUPER STAR !!!

[cniza]

The main thing is that they have enough money for it all with a head ...

[rocket757]

They also have such a feature - the show should continue! - they are funny guys, however.

[cniza]

This is a highly profitable business for them ...

[your1970]

it’s quite easy to declassify - that when I greeted him - I transmitted the encryption ... Khan Trump after that will be (and his parties too)

[rocket757]

Well, yes, the spy could not understand why it was opened, again cursing, hooking a dragging parachute behind the curb!

[Operator]

Russian nuclear scientists are beating their hoof in impatience to begin testing our thermonuclear charges on Novaya Zemlya, including a 100-megaton one in a new form factor (in a "pure" version of half power without a third stage made of uranium-238, of course).

[Vladimir_2U]

Naturally, I'm all for it! And it seems that some "exceptional" began to forget about "Kuzma's mother"!

[Vol4ara]

Quote: Operator

Russian nuclear scientists are beating their hoof in impatience to begin testing our thermonuclear charges on Novaya Zemlya, including a 100-megaton one in a new form factor (in a "pure" version of half power without a third stage made of uranium-238, of course).

A useless scarecrow that is difficult to deliver. 1mt is enough to paralyze the city, but even such powers are in the minority

[Operator]

100 megatons is not about paralyzing, but about erasing.

[cniza]

Quote: Operator

Russian nuclear scientists are beating their hoof in impatience to begin testing our thermonuclear charges on Novaya Zemlya, including a 100-megaton one in a new form factor (in a "pure" version of half power without a third stage made of uranium-238, of course).

What for ? there are tons of other ways to terrify the entire population of the earth.

[rotmistr60]

all that is missing is Donald Trump’s order.

But for this I think the matter does not arise. Leaves on Twitter and forth. You look and listen to the statements of American politicians and the military and it feels like you are back in the 60-80s. Exactly - history is developing in a spiral, but did not think at such a speed.

[cniza]

Yes, he doesn’t have much time left and he likes to redo everything, so he won’t rust behind him ...

[alex aircraft]

Nothing wrong. On Earth since 1945, there have been hundreds of tests of nuclear weapons and have been still alive. Practice is better than theory, so it's time for us to print the test site on a new earth. It is a pity that Semipalatinsk left underground explosions there.

[iouris]

It was necessary for a long time to experience a high-power charge in the atmosphere, to shoot all this in 4K resolution from different points, and present it to the "world community", otherwise they began to forget.

[cniza]

I suspect that this USA will not stop ...

[iouris]

... and if that doesn't stop them, then they need to prepare: "Drink first, Fedya!"

[cniza]

I think this can happen fast enough.

It seems that the United States has suffered in all spoilage and the worst ...

[Pvi1206]

few people coronavirus .... now again radiation will destroy us ...

[cniza]

And if this virus or another "sniffs" this radiation, what can it mutate into? ...

[yfast]

Let them explode on the moon, and preferably on Mars.

[Vadim237]

How Mars will begin to terraform then they will explode there, in order to create a greenhouse effect on Mars, it is necessary to explode about 10000 nuclear charges of 50 megatons each there, but all this in the distant future - until humanity can land on it.

[SVD68]

It seems true that the United States has lost its technology for producing nuclear weapons. Going to recover.

[Lara Croft]

The Pentagon believes that within a few months the United States may begin nuclear testing.

And what earlier did this interfere with? The United States has not yet ratified the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ...

“The responsibility for the fact that this document has not yet entered into force lies with those eight states from the list of 44 that have not yet ratified this document. In this context, we call on the United States of America to change the decision set out in the nuclear doctrine of this country not work towards ratification of the CTBT, "he said at the Nonproliferation Conference.

https://ria.ru/20191108/1560701024.html

[Old26]

Quote: Tatiana

Earlier in the American newspaper The Washington Post, information came from senior officials from the US administration that a meeting was held on May 15 to discuss the possibility of the United States restarting nuclear tests. The reason for this discussion was the data on allegedly conducted by Russia and China tests of low-power nuclear charges.

And this is what supposedly in the US State Department "The reason for such a discussion was the DATA about the TESTS allegedly carried out by Russia and China low-power nuclear charges " - How shoud I understand this?

The fact is, Tatyana, that after the announcement of a moratorium on nuclear weapons tests, Russia, China and the United States carried out the so-called hydro nuclear or subcritical testing of devices. In fact, these tests cannot even be called tests of extremely low power.
But the United States, as always, wants to be holier than the Pope. It’s somehow not comme il faut to just get out of the moratorium, but to get out, claiming that others are breaking is a completely different matter
The hardware back in the late 80s and early 90s was so sensitive that it was able to detect an experimental nuclear explosion in Kazakhstan from the United States. Moreover, the power of EMNIP was about 100 tons of solid fuel. And low-power charges are still units of kilotons.

Quote: K-612-O

Not Israel, not Pakistan, much less the DPRK did not sign the non-proliferation treaty, and even less so the CTBT. And Germany, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Saudi (Pakistani charges), Turkey and theoretically Algeria with Egypt can want to make and test for a vaping during the year.

India, by the way, also did not sign the non-proliferation treaty and the universal test ban. The US withdrawal from these treaties will pave the way for other countries to start developing and testing nuclear weapons. And how many nuclear powers will become in 10-20 years generally unpredictable.,

Quote: K-612-O

So they did not sign the CTBT. Officially not, but if they use it. And they tested it perfectly in South Africa.

Israel has signed an agreement on the CTBT but has not ratified it

Quote: Ciklop

Their nuclear weapons are outdated, everyone in the AUGi was hoping for political idle talk and threats ..

What is the basis for such a profound conclusion? Testing stopped all at the same time and after that no one improved it. That is, from this point of view, all weapons are equally "outdated"

Quote: Ciklop

PS By the way, about 200 US nuclear weapons are deployed in Europe, in violation of all norms and agreements

Would you be so kind as to say what kind of agreement the Americans are violating. Just wondering.

Quote: Ciklop

..Can something stir up again in Cuba? To understand how wrong they are ..

Once already muddied. Hardly ended in World War III, a nuclear war. I again wanted the thrill. So now we are in an extremely disadvantageous situation than we were then. If then the American infantry-based infantry fighting systems were based in Turkey, Britain, Italy, and the shorter range in Germany, then now they may be in the Baltic states, Georgia, Ukraine ... Fun for us ...

[5-9]

The question is - why, if the tests were stopped 30 years ago due to the fact that they became and are not needed (the accumulated data on a thousand explosions and the development of computers can be calculated) ???
Another coin in favor of the fact that the United States has huge problems with nuclear charges ... they don’t make new 30 years, 15 years ago they lost their enrichment industry, now they play pranks on old charges with a decrease in power from 100 to 5 ktn .... not sure that old or remade ones are workers, that's why tests are needed ..... didi used to blow up a nova before ...

[Kuzmitsky]

In the sense - to check their suitability?

[Gennady Fomkin]

Then we will tear on Novaya Zemlya, so that with a breeze towards Europe

[Ros 56]

And they don’t think how the people in the world will react to this? By people, I mean the leadership of independent states, naturally not of the Banderlog type.

[Old26]

Quote: 5-9

now they play pranks on old charges with a decrease in power from 100 to 5 ktn ...

Stas! do not repeat nonsense about reducing capacity. It is planned to upgrade such charges not more than fifty

Quote: Albert1988

These are slightly different types of nuclear explosions! Since you can explode at a depth of a dozen meters, or you can steam hundreds or more - the effect will be different ...
How, what and where the Americans will blow up - that’s the main question!

No one will explode at a depth of several tens of meters ... Those who explode are not complete idiots to make sure that all the muck from the same mine crawled out. The release of radioactive dust or gas is an emergency during testing.
Moreover, no one will explode megaton class charges, this is not relevant now.
The Americans have two places where they can theoretically explode: Amchitka and Nevada