Put up your 'nukes'..? Signs that U.S., Russia & China all closer to nuclear testing. (Page 1/1)
rinselberg SEP 22, 08:12 AM
"Exclusive: Satellite images show increased activity at nuclear test sites in Russia, China and US"
Eric Cheung, Brad Lendon and Ivan Watson, for CNN; September 22, 2023.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09...tl-hnk-ml/index.html

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Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN show, at a time when tensions between the three major nuclear powers have risen to their highest in decades.

While there is no evidence to suggest that Russia, the US or China is preparing for an imminent nuclear test, the images, obtained and provided by a prominent analyst in military nonproliferation studies, illustrate recent expansions at three nuclear test sites compared with just a few years ago.

One is operated by China in the far western region of Xinjiang, one by Russia in an Arctic Ocean archipelago, and another in the US in the Nevada desert.

The satellite images from the past three to five years show new tunnels under mountains, new roads and storage facilities, as well as increased vehicle traffic coming in and out of the sites, said Jeffrey Lewis, an adjunct professor at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

“There are really a lot of hints that we’re seeing that suggest Russia, China and the United States might resume nuclear testing,” he said, something none of those countries have done since underground nuclear testing was banned by the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. China and the US signed the treaty, but they haven’t ratified it.

Retired US Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton, a former intelligence analyst, reviewed the images of the three powers’ nuclear sites and came to a similar conclusion.


I thought I would post this as being somewhat newsworthy, but mostly, it's a small reminder of our most recently banned forum member. It's the kind of news that he would have posted and said that he "relished," as a sign that humanity might finally be about to get its just deserts (of total annihilation.) Maybe he's lurking and reading this? Whobody knows.

I think it's possible to lament the loss of a forum member, without disagreeing in any way with the decision that moved him to the User Banned category.

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Viva la revolución del 15 de agosto

[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 09-22-2023).]

fredtoast SEP 22, 09:40 AM
The term "few years" is pretty vague.

I wonder if this cranked up when North Korea started testing longer range missiles at the end of the Trump years.

More likely when Russia invaded Ukraine.

But it is hard to get the real meaning of these actions without a better timeline.