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Ben Dando

Ben Dando

Head of Seismology and Verification, NORSAR

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"I would not say that there's really strong conclusive evidence. We can't really confirm or deny whether a nuclear test took place at this point."

"The ratios of different seismic waves is consistent with an explosion... it would correspond to an explosion equivalent to perhaps tens of tons of TNT." — February 2026

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US accuses China of secret nuclear test at Lop Nur

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No country has acknowledged conducting a nuclear test since 1998. But on February 6, 2026, the United States accused China of secretly breaking that taboo—claiming Beijing detonated a nuclear device at its Lop Nur test site in June 2020 and masked the explosion using underground caverns that muffle seismic waves.

Updated Feb 18