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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) plans to perform two subcritical explosive experiments at the Nevada National Security Site in the fiscal year that ends Oct. 1, 2024, according to Deputy Administrator for Defense Nonproliferation Corey Hinderstein. Since the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CBTB) took effect in 1992, NNSA has performed 33 subcritical experiments at the Nevada site, Hinderstein told the CTBT: Science and Technology Conference 2023 in Vienna, Austria, recently. Subcritical tests are designed so that no self-sustaining nuclear…
