Re:A Deeply Unsettling Time Lapse Of Every Nuclear Explosion...
by bluedino on Sunday December 08, 2013 @02:31PM
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It's been 50 years since the US did a non-underground test. What do you think we use all these supercomputers for? Nuclear testing.
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Re:A Deeply Unsettling Time Lapse Of Every Nuclear Explosion...
by dedward on Sunday December 08, 2013 @03:23PM
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Yup. The test partial test ban treaty was signed in 1963 by all the nuclear powers at the time - everything after then, US or otherwise, has been underground, with the exception of, I believe, India, who was not a nuclear power when the treaty was drawn up - india set of a series of undersea tests late in the century.
This was done specifically because they realized they would collectively make the planet uninhabitable if they continued.
Re:A Deeply Unsettling Time Lapse Of Every Nuclear Explosion...
by eshvk on Sunday December 08, 2013 @03:38PM
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> india set of a series of undersea tests late in the century.
underground. [1] [2]
Re:A Deeply Unsettling Time Lapse Of Every Nuclear Explosion...
by achamayou on Sunday December 08, 2013 @03:37PM
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France didn't sign, and went on with atmospheric testing until 1974, and the same is true of China (although they didn't start testing until 1964, so they weren't technically part of "all the nuclear powers at the time").