"One day you will give us thanks for our nuclear test."
"And all they pay us back with is this nuclear test."
The nuclear test may force Washington to pick a strategy.
We must first check if any such nuclear test was carried out.
China carried out a nuclear test on October 5 last year.
There were 210 French nuclear tests from 1960 until 1996.
China conducted a nuclear test that it said would be one of its last.
Both countries have conducted nuclear tests, and each is trying to get the Bush administration to put pressure on the other.
The major challenge came in May 1998 - dealing with the nuclear test.
But the older guys will say that nothing can really replace a live nuclear test.