1.   But the conservatives would like to conduct a quick burst of up to five test blasts next year to help simulate future tests of warhead designs by computer.

2.   Signaling its own sentiments, the U.S. military stages exercises and helps set off a nuclear test blast in the Pacific.

3.   That treaty banned nuclear test blasts in the atmosphere, in space and underwater but permitted them underground.

4.   The treaty Clinton is forwarding to the Senate would ban all forms of test blasts.

5.   Pressured to end diplomatic fallout, President Jacques Chirac on Monday weighed whether to conduct a final nuclear test blast or cut the series short.

6.   Protesters marched, burned French flags and chained themselves to French embassies worldwide Wednesday as anger flared over the underground test blast ordered by Chirac a day earlier.

7.   As the leaders held closing news conferences, some of them repeated rumors sweeping Birmingham that a test blast was set off in Pakistan earlier Sunday.

8.   But Chinese officials did not clearly indicate whether Beijing had altered its insistence that it be allowed to continue test blasts for peaceful purposes.

9.   But it can detect test blasts above a certain level, and experts believe those below that would not pose a danger to the United States.

10.   Chirac said the underground test blasts were needed to verify computer simulation that would make further testing unnecessary.