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Russia cautions the United States regarding potential nuclear testing during the Trump administration

Russia’s arms control representative warned Donald Trump‘s incoming administration on Friday that Moscow is contemplating a variety of potential actions regarding nuclear testing, citing Trump’s extreme stance on the matter.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, responsible for arms control, was quoted by the Kommersant newspaper, indicating that Trump adopted a radical approach to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) during his initial term.

Ryabkov stated, “The current international landscape is highly challenging, and American policies across various dimensions are particularly antagonistic towards us.” He added, “Thus, the range of our actions aimed at ensuring security, along with the array of possible measures and actions to achieve this—while also conveying politically relevant signals beyond what practitioners are contemplating—does not exclude any options.”

During Trump’s presidency from 2017 to 2021, discussions within his administration included the possibility of conducting the first U.S. nuclear test since 1992, as reported by the Washington Post in 2020.

Post-Soviet Russia has refrained from conducting nuclear tests, with the last Soviet test occurring in 1990. President Vladimir Putin has indicated that Russia would consider nuclear testing if the United States were to proceed with such actions. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, only a limited number of countries have conducted nuclear tests, according to the Arms Control Association: the United States last tested in 1992, followed by China and France in 1996, India and Pakistan in 1998, and North Korea in 2017.

 


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