Super "weapon" to escape CTBT

However, physical tests carry the risk of igniting a nuclear arms race on the sub-continent and may be viewed negatively by China which is already a Nuclear Weapons State, analysts have said. Besides, physical testing is considered crude and destructive in the computer age.

Last week, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing unveiled the "Param 10000," a 100-gigaflops machine whose indigenously developed open-frame architecture readily allows it to be scaled up to the rarefied world of teraflop computers. So far only the US and Japan have been able to produce teraflop-range machines which can carry out athousand billion mathematical operations per second. The eagerness of the US to promote the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) stems from the discovery that there is no need to carry out physical testing of nuclear weapons since computer simulations can actually be better than the real thing.