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Double Standards. US Nuclear Weapons Test condemned by Iran, Japan
By Russia Today
Global Research, December 08, 2012
Russia Today
Iran has strongly condemned the US for carrying out a nuclear test in
Nevada this week, saying the move threatens world peace and shows a
hypocritical set of double standards set by Washington when it comes
to nuclear research.
?The Iranian Foreign Ministry said the Wednesday detonation proves
that US foreign policy relies heavily on the use of nuclear weapons,
disregarding UN calls for global disarmament, PressTV reports.
The experiment also drew criticism from Japan, with Hiroshima Mayor
Kazumi Matsui wondering why the Obama administration carried out the
test, despite saying he would "seek a nuclear-free world."
The test proves that the US "could use nuclear weapons anytime," said
Hirotami Yamada, who heads the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Council.
On Friday it was announced that the Nevada National Security Site had
successfully detonated plutonium in a deep shaft Wednesday to test
the safety and effectiveness of US nuclear weapons, National Nuclear
Security Administration officials said.
The Pollux subcritical experiment was carried out by scientists at
the Los Alamos, New Mexico national laboratory and the Sandia
National Laboratories and involved a tiny sample of plutonium bomb
material.
Subcritical nuclear experiments have been conducted in the US since
1997 in order to help scientists understand how plutonium ages in the
stockpile.
They use chemical explosives to blow up bits of nuclear materials
designed to stop just short of erupting into a nuclear chain
reaction, also known as a criticality.
The latest test used new diagnostic equipment that enabled
researchers to collect more data then ever before.
"This is a significant diagnostics advancement," Darwin Morgan,
spokesman for the Nevada National Nuclear Security Site, was quoted
as saying by the Las Vegas Review Journal.
Officials claimed that the test was carried out to provide for the
secure storage of nuclear warheads.
International inspectors were not allowed to witness the experiment,
as Washington has prevented access to its test site since the late
1990s.
Wednesday's test is twenty-seventh American "subcritical experiment"
since full-scale nuclear weapons tests were halted in 1992.
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