It turns out that the Biden administration in the United States conducted two subcritical nuclear tests last year without a nuclear explosion.
This is the first time that the Biden administration has conducted a subcritical nuclear test.
The US Department of Energy's NNSA = Nuclear Security Administration told NHK on the 13th that it conducted a subcritical nuclear test without a nuclear explosion on June 22 and September 16 last year in western Nevada. I made it clear that I went there.
The NNSA has not disclosed the purpose or details of the test, but the United States has conducted a subcritical nuclear test since November, the first time since the Biden administration.
The US government declared in 1992 that nuclear tests involving a nuclear explosion would be suspended, but successive administrations have continued to say that subcritical nuclear tests are not accompanied by a nuclear explosion.
President Biden, who served as Vice President during the Obama administration, has taken on the idea of a "nuclear-free world" and has shown a positive attitude toward nuclear disarmament, but the modernization of nuclear weapons amid the growing nuclear threat from Russia and China. It is a form of carrying out the subcritical nuclear test required for.