The Bush administration does not support the treaty, but the test moratorium and too many other Clinton-era nuclear weapon policies remain in effect, nonetheless.

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TOS-1, is a rocket that delivers a cloud of exploding fuel vapour, creating an effect like a small nuclear weapon.

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With a successful test, Pyongyang could in effect proclaim itself invulnerable, above the law, a nuclear-weapon state immune from international action.

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