Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, together with the head of Rosatom, Alexei Likhachev, “circled around” the Central Russian test site on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.
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The statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Muscovites specifies that from 1954 to 1990, nuclear weapons were tested at this test site, in total 132 nuclear explosions were carried out. At present, according to the department, the main tasks of the test site are the preparation and testing of promising models of weapons and military equipment.
At the same time, journalist Dmitry Kolezev recalled that at the end of February, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that “some figures” in Washington are thinking about “the possibility of natural tests of their nuclear weapons.” The Kremlin dictator then said that if the US does this, then Russia will do the same.
In February 2023, Vladimir Putin signed into law a law suspending Russia’s participation in the strategic arms reduction treaty with the United States, which stipulated that each country could only have a limited number of nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
Among other things, the president motivated his decision by the fact that the United States is allegedly thinking about the possibility of testing American nuclear weapons. According to him, he then instructed the Ministry of Defense and Rosatom to prepare for possible tests of Russian nuclear weapons.
The last US nuclear test was conducted on September 23, 1992. In 1996, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty was concluded. It was signed by 185 states, of which 170, including Russia, have ratified this treaty. The United States did not do this, which is why it never entered into force. However, no one conducts tests, except for the DPRK.
Source: Racurs
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