Nuclear Testing Possibly to Resume

[william]

I would like to see the seismic data on this event. I know china and Japan are having a dust up at the moment and with all the tension in the world right now I fear someone is going to pop off a demonstration nuke somewhere.

 

[Deleted account]

I would like to see the seismic data on this event. I know china and Japan are having a dust up at the moment and with all the tension in the world right now I fear someone is going to pop off a demonstration nuke somewhere.

A nuclear detonation is not capable of causing an M7.6 earthquake. Not even remotely close.

 

[william]

A nuclear detonation is not capable of causing an M7.6 earthquake. Not even remotely close.

Can nuclear explosions cause earthquakes?

A nuclear explosion can cause an earthquake and even an aftershock sequence. However, earthquakes induced by explosions have been much smaller than the explosion, and the aftershock sequence produces fewer and smaller aftershocks than a similar size earthquake. Not all explosions have caused...

www.usgs.gov

Tectonic weapon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Deleted account]

Can nuclear explosions cause earthquakes?

A nuclear explosion can cause an earthquake and even an aftershock sequence. However, earthquakes induced by explosions have been much smaller than the explosion, and the aftershock sequence produces fewer and smaller aftershocks than a similar size earthquake. Not all explosions have caused...

www.usgs.gov

Oh, so you trust USGS? Very well; here's their data on this earthquake (Source):


It was clearly a Chinese nuclear bomb - the biggest one anyone's ever detonated - which they buried 25 miles below the bottom of the sea.

 

[Sentry]

Under Secretary of State for Arms Control & International Safety Thomas G. DiNanno claims China has conducted nuclear explosive tests using decoupling, a method to decrease the effectiveness of seismic monitoring, to hide its activities from the world. He claims China conducted one such nuclear test on June 22, 2020.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2019765749984960730

 

[william]

Interesting thread

https://twitter.com/x/status/2019808823641539053

https://twitter.com/x/status/2019714343135334711

 

[william]

US claims China conducted secret nuclear weapons test​

A top Trump administration official on Tuesday disclosed new details to support its claim that China conducted an underground nuclear explosion during Donald Trump’s first presidency, a contested assertion that, nevertheless, has become a catalyst for his push to resume such testing by the United States.

“We’re not going to remain at an intolerable disadvantage,” Christopher Yeaw, who heads the State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control and Nonproliferation, said during a discussion at the Hudson Institute, a think tank in Washington. He urged Beijing to “come clean” about its nuclear weapons tests, which some U.S. officials and experts say is part of a determined Chinese effort to catch up to, if not eclipse, the United States’ global advantage in nuclear weapons technology.

The event in question occurred June 22, 2020, “right near” a secretive facility known as Lop Nur in China’s western Xinjiang region, Yeaw told those attending the discussion. The U.S., he added, used seismic data captured by a facility in neighboring Kazakhstan to conclude that China had conducted an explosive nuclear test.

The activity — measured at a magnitude of 2.76 — was not consistent with an earthquake or explosions used in mining, Yeaw said. The suspected explosion’s yield — meaning the amount of energy it released — remains unclear because of the Chinese government’s efforts to conceal the test, he said, adding, “We know that they were preparing designated tests of hundreds of tons” in yield.

Tracking China’s nuclear development — including its testing capabilities — is extraordinarily difficult, and few outside observers have ever set foot inside a Chinese military nuclear facility.

Analysts say that while it is unlikely U.S. authorities could make a conclusive determination based on seismic data alone, they cannot rule out the possibility that the Trump administration’s claims are supported by other intelligence — including classified data that can detect radioactive signatures or human intelligence.

If such evidence does exist, U.S. officials have not disclosed it publicly.

MSN

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/17/china-nuclear-test-trump/