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Disarmament Diplomacy
Issue No. 33, December 1998 - January 1999
Russian Sub-Critical Tests
On 24 December, Russia's Deputy Minister of Nuclear Energy, Lev
Ryabev, stated that Russia conducted five sub-critical nuclear
tests at its Novaya Zemyla site in the Arctic between 14
September-13 December. Ryabev told the Interfax news agency
that "no discharge of nuclear energy" was involved in any of the
tests, which are a major means of obtaining information about
nuclear warheads without resorting to full-scale radioactive
explosions.
Report: Russia admits to five nuclear tests,
Associated Press, 24 December.
© 1998 The Acronym Institute.
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