the court made the above judgment.

India are also known to have conducted underground nuclear tests.South Africa -- which dismantled its entire nascent nuclear weapons program in 1989 - closed down its underground shafts without conducting a test.

Disarmament experts have raised many such scenarios after North Korea said over the weekend that it would use explosives to collapse the tunnels of its Punggye-ri nuclear test site next week.says it shut down and dismantled its nuclear test facilities.We look forward to learning additional details.

Permanent and irreversobleNuclear experts say the shutdown plan is at least an encouraging political gesture ahead of talks with the United States in June.there is no risk of radiation being released.

Previous efforts to close underground nuclear test sites have sometimes been messy.

The only risk I see is that we will take the destruction of a couple of tunnels as a physical barrier to the resumption of testing in the future.the corpse of another sits rotting on the bank.

The other main front that firefighters are battling is in the Pantanal National Park to the southwest.Investigating the financial link between Americans and the burning of the Amazon rainforest 05:54 It has been hit hard by drought this year.

The Pantanal sits at the southern edge of the Amazon rainforest which was also devastated by unprecedented fires in 2019 stretching from Brazil into Bolivia and Paraguay across more than 65.Experts say even when animals survive the flames.