The U.S. recently conducted the 23rd sub-critical nuclear test since 1997 in the underground nuclear test ground in Nevada despite strong rebuff and protest of the international community. It is a challenge to humankind's desire for peace and an anti-peace act of sparking off a nuclear arms race.

It is sheer sophism for the Bush administration to assert that the sub-critical nuclear test does not violate the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty, the commentary says, and goes on:

The U.S. had better drop its nuclear ambition and stop conducting nuclear tests and developing nuclear weapons.

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