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Politics : Clinton -- doomed & wagging, Japan collapses, Y2K bug, etc

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To: Craig Rogers who wrote (474)	9/25/1998 3:26:00 PM
From: SOROS	of 1151

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has observed activity at a remote Russian nuclear test site but cannot predict whether the Russians are planning a nuclear explosion, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday. The spokesman, Naval Captain Mike Doubleday, was commenting on a report in the Washington Times newspaper that said a U.S. spy satellite had detected activity by vehicles at Novaya Zemlya Island off the north Russian coast. ''We have observed some activity at this Russian test range suggesting that some nuclear-related experiments are under way but we have not concluded that a nuclear explosion has taken place or is necessarily involved in this,'' he said. Asked if the evidence indicated the Russians were preparing for a subcritical nuclear test, he said, ''That certainly is a possibility but at this point I am certainly in no position to predict what the Russians may be contemplating.'' Russian officials said in July they were planning this year to set off a subcritical explosion, which is considered acceptable by Washington under the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which has still to be ratified by the United States. Such tests do not necessarily involve a nuclear blast and are sometimes carried out by the United States. An actual nuclear explosion would end a self-declared moratorium on nuclear tests Russia has complied with since 1990. In August 1997 what the United States called a ''seismic event'' was detected at Novaya Zemlya, but experts in Washington were unable to definitively declare whether it was caused by an explosion or a small earthquake. In Moscow the Atomic Energy Ministry said Thursday it had no information on any plans for a subcritical test and Defense Ministry officials were not available for comment.

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