Britain testing nukes in Nevada?

Needless to say, I’m unhappy with this Deseret News headline:
New nuclear threat for Utah? Britain may be creating, testing weapon in West.

There is suspicion that Britain’s sub-critical test at the Nevada Test site last month (named “Krakatau” on Feb 23) is leading to further testing there.

Let me get this straight (A—GAIN):
U.S. – nukes o.k.
Iran – nukes not o.k.
Britain – nukes o.k.
India – nukes o.k.
Korea – nukes not o.k.
Iraq – nukes not o.k.
Israel – nukes o.k.
France – nukes o.k. (french fries….not)

There’s something wrong with this picture.

Kevin Rohrer, spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Nevada Site, told the Deseret Morning News that nothing in the test was designed “to help develop a new weapon.”
But Steve Erickson, director of the Citizens Education Project in Utah and a longtime opponent of nuclear testing in Nevada, believes the British press reports — and is worried by them, and about U.K.-U.S. mutual defense agreements that allow testing in Nevada.
“We have never fielded a brand-new design for a warhead without nuclear testing it first,” Erickson said.
“They’ve crossed a crucial threshold with that last test,” Erickson added. “With it, we charge that they have moved into weapon development as opposed to stockpile sustainment. . . . Why are we doing this to help the British?”
Erickson worries that underground nuclear tests could occur again, but not the open-air tests that led to cancer downwind in Utah. Congress later apologized for those tests and created a compensation fund for some downwind cancer victims.

The Times of London, however, quoted unnamed British defense officials saying they figured they would need to develop new warheads without full nuclear testing because of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. They said they instead likely would have to depend on “subcritical” tests coupled with analysis by supercomputers.

How is this keeping in adherence to the Non-Proliferation Treaty????

The Deseret News states that “underground tests are safer” (but can still leak radiation).

SAFER FOR WHAT AND FOR WHOM???? There is no such thing as a safe nuclear test. No matter the form of the test, it is UNSAFE FOR OUR PLANET.