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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 13. Mars 2007 / Time Line March 13, 2007
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U.S. Conducts Subcritical Nuclear Test Series
Global Security Newswire - Tuesday, March 13, 2007
The United States has conducted four subcritical nuclear tests this
year involving small amounts of plutonium, the Las Vegas
Review-Journal reported.
The Nevada Test Site experiments, dubbed the “Thermos”
tests, have involved gram-size amounts of fissile material, less
than in previous U.S. subcritical tests. Such tests examine the
properties of plutonium during an explosion without creating a
nuclear chain reaction.
Test site manager sees challenges ahead
From Thermos-5 to bunker buster
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2007/Mar-12-Mon-2007/news/13078829.html
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Pentagon agency that has
conducted more than 40 non-nuclear tests in an effort to develop a
bunker-buster bomb for crushing deep tunnels in limestone where an
enemy could store weapons of mass destruction.
The agency abruptly canceled the final and largest test of the
series, dubbed Divine Strake, on Feb. 22 amid opposition from
downwinders, politicians and environmentalists. They feared the
blast's mushroom cloud would carry dust laced with radioactive
particles from historic nuclear tests off the Nevada Test Site.
In announcing the cancellation, agency chief James Tegnelia said
his scientists will try to get the data that was expected from
Divine Strake by conducting "confirmatory experiments at a much
smaller scale."
Litteratur: Divine Strake: Global Strike Low-Yield
Nuclear Simulation
http://www.nukestrat.com/us/stratcom/gs-divinestrake.htm U.S.
Department of Energy, "Large-Scale, Open-Air Explosive Detonation
DIVINE STRAKE at the Nevada Test Site," Environmental Assessment,
DOE/EA-1550, May 2006.
http://www.nukestrat.com/us/stratcom/gs-DivineStrakeEA.pdf
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