underground testing: US moves closer to underground testing

As early as 2027, the $1.8 billion Scorpius project will make it possible to move beyond theoretical computer modelling to study in much more detail the conditions found inside the final stages of a nuclear weapon implosion but without the nuclear explosion, said Jon Custer, the Sandia project lead in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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