Source: New York Post
The US accused China Wednesday of conducting at least one secret nuclear test as Washington continued its push for a new arms control treaty that would include Beijing in addition to Moscow and Washington. “I can reveal that the US government is aware that China has conducted nuclear explosive tests, including preparing for tests with designated yields in the hundreds of tons,” Thomas DiNanno, undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, told a United Nations Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday. “China has used decoupling — a method to decrease the effectiveness of seismic monitoring — to hide its activities from the world,” DiNanno added on X, noting that Beijing had conducted one such test on June 22, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic forced much of the world into lockdowns.
