Putin hints at a possible resumption of nuclear weapons tests in response to Trump’s comments
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to submit proposals on the start of nuclear weapons tests in response to President Trump Teaching the Pentagon doing so on an “equal basis” with other countries.
In a meeting on Wednesday with his Security Council, Putin said that Russia has followed the comprehensive nuclear agreement, which prohibits the explosion of nuclear weapons.
But he said: “If the United States or another group in the region conducts such tests, Russia will be responsible for taking retaliatory measures.”
Mr. Trump wanted to Interview with 60 Minutes that Russia is among the few countries testing nuclear weapons when asked about his order.
“The Russian probe, and the Chinese probe, but they don’t talk about it,” Mr. Trump said of Norah O’Donnell. “We are testing, because they are testing others and testing. And certainly North Korea has been tested. Pakistan has been tested.”
It is not clear what type of testing Mr Trump is ordering. The last time the US received a nuclear weapon as part of a test was in 1992.
“Nobody knows what Trump meant by ‘nuclear test’ (maybe he doesn’t do it himself),” Stmiry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, wrote in a social media post on Wednesday.
“But he is the president of the United States,” the post continued. “And the consequences of such words are inescapable: Russia will be forced to conduct full-scale nuclear tests itself.”
China was the first of the nations accused by Mr. Trump deny any secret nuclear testing. Pakistani official he told CBS news that the country “will not be the first to proceed with nuclear testing.”
Mr Trump made the claim to O’Donnell just days after the president appointed stratcom – the US military’s nuclear command – he told lawmakers on Chitol Hill.
North Korea is the only nation known to have developed a nuclear weapon since the 1990s. Russia’s last nuclear test was in 1990, and China’s in 1996.
The US is among nearly 180 nations that have signed a comprehensive nuclear test-ban treaty.
Along with China and other nuclear powers, but the US did not agree to the agreement, the situation expressed by Putin in 2023 when he decided to The renaissance of Moscow.
While Russia has increased its nuclear tests – powerful ones too Weapons Systems for Nuclear Power Systemsit does not announce any further recognition of the decline of nuclear testing.
Putin’s renewal of the CTBT’s CTTIA specifically two years ago revived speculation that he might order new nuclear tests, and calls from members of the Russian Parliament to do so. Putin previously suggested that Russia would resume explosive nuclear tests if the US did.
Last year, Putin agreed to changes in Russia’s official nuclear doctrine, which would legally amend the terms – and lower the limit – on which Moscow can consider using its nuclear weapons.
Revised doctrine, announced just as Ukraine launched its first strikes deep into Russia I have missiles donated by the US, saying that Russia would treat an attack by a non-nuclear state supported by a country with nuclear capabilities as a joint attack by both.
That means that with the idea that any attack on Russia by a country that is part of the coalition can be seen as an attack by the whole group. Under the doctrine, Russia can consider any major attack on its territory, even with conventional weapons, with Ukraine not having enough problems to create a nuclear response, because Ukraine is supported by the United States nuclear.
Putin has it threatened to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine Many times since he ordered a full-scale attack on the country on February 24, 2022, and Russia has warned the West that if Washington allows Ukraine to abandon the missiles of the West, it will go to war.
Mr. Trump it’s rare so far Ukrainian President VolOdymyr Zesenskyy’s Revent Repeated Requests for US-DEAHAWAWK DAING RANDICE Missiles.
What does Trump mean by continuing nuclear tests?
Mr Trump did not make it clear what was meant Plan to have a US military ARSENAL of its own nuclear weapons It includes conducting an actual atomic explosion, which has not been done in the US for more than 30 years, or recently increased testing of weapons systems used to deliver nuclear warheads.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Mr Trump’s appointee, again played down on Sunday the idea that the US would start a nuclear explosion.
“I think the tests we’re talking about right now are testing the system. This is not a nuclear explosion,” Fox News said. “This is what we call a ‘non-critical explosion,’ so you check all the other parts of the nuclear weapon to make sure they deliver the explosion geometry and set the nuclear explosion.”
