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Sen. Cotton Calls for US Exit From Nuclear Test Ban Treaty After Report of Chinese Testing

Sen. Cotton Calls for US Exit From Nuclear Test Ban Treaty After Report of Chinese Testing
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) looks on as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin delivers the annual financial stability report to the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee in Washington, on Jan. 30, 2018. Pete Marovich/Getty Images
Cathy He
Cathy He
EDITOR
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A U.S. senator is calling on the Trump administration to withdraw from an international pact banning nuclear weapons tests in response to a report that the Chinese regime may be secretly conducting small nuclear tests.

A State Department report stated concerns that China may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclear test blasts at its Lop Nur site throughout 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported on April 15.
Cathy He
Cathy He
EDITOR
Cathy He is the politics editor at the Washington D.C. bureau. She was previously an editor for U.S.-China and a reporter covering U.S.-China relations.
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