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China Conducted Nuclear Blasts in Tibet to Divert Brahmaputra River
- mknits 13y agoFuck China. What the hell do they want? They already have all the resources, a very big landmass, world largest workforce and what not...
- bsullivan01 13y agoChina and India are not exactly best friends and water wars are one of the reasons. So while China might have done them (they've done worse things,) I'd take these reports with a grain of salt. US agencies, if I'm not mistaken, can detect these and we probably would have heard from some US newspaper.
- loceng 13y agoBecause you hear everything that happens around the world, and the U.S. government would never silence such a thing in the name of managing relationships..
- kbart 13y agoYou have missed few important parts: 1) It (supposedly) happened in March 2005, when world's (and US agencies') eyes were on Iraq war. 2) "<...> US authorities admitted to their Indian counterparts the complete failure of their satellites to detect the blasts" Which is quite believable if nuclear blasts were low-yield as stated in the article.