After the Pentagon's use of the 'mother of all bombs' in Afghanistan, there are concerns over the use of such weapons.
On Thursday, the US military dropped its so-called Mother Of All Bombs on a remote town in eastern Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border.
It targeted a network of tunnels and caves used by a local branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.
An Afghan governor said the 10,000kg bomb killed at least 100 fighters.
It is believed to be the most powerful non-nuclear bomb dropped by the US in any battlefield.
And on Saturday, a US government agency announced the successful test of a mock nuclear bomb in Nevada.
It is part of an effort to upgrade one of the nuclear weapons that has been in the US arsenal for decades.
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