Low-Yield.

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Russians cheating? And in a big way?

This is all much more clear now?

1. "U.S. Believes Russia Conducting Low-Level Nuclear Tests"

"Russian MP notes tests can't be carried out secretly"

"With no evidence to support the allegations, US DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency] officials are accusing Russia of potentially having the capability of violating the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Russia ratified this treaty in 2000, and the US has never done so."

2. "U.S. believes Russia conducting low-level nuclear tests: official"

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States believes Russia may be conducting low-level nuclear tests, a U.S. intelligence official on Wednesday, while the head of a body monitoring a global nuclear treaty said there was no sign of such violations by Moscow."

RUSSIANS SIGNATORIES TO THE NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY [USA NOT A SIGNATORY] VIOLATING THE TREATY WITH WHAT ARE CALLED "LOW-YIELD" DETONATIONS?

SO BELIEVED THE USA MILITARY INTELLIGENCE [DIA].

Repeated and unexplained high-levels of atmospheric radioactivity as might have been associated with a nuclear detonation observed by a whole host of sources.

See however within context of a previous blog entry a very reasonable explanation, those high-levels of atmospheric radioactivity not due to atomic explosion.

It is not so much reality that counts but the perception of reality that counts?

coolbert.