Russian President Vladimir Putin has withdrawn Russia’s ratification of the legal ban on nuclear weapons testing.
The relevant decree was published on Thursday in the official database of Russian law. The move was expected. Putin had previously justified the withdrawal from the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) by saying that Russia should have the same options as the second major nuclear power, the US.
Unlike Russia, the US has never ratified the treaty. However, the United States, like all other countries except North Korea, has adhered to the test ban since the 1990s. The Test Ban Treaty itself was adopted in 1996 to curb the further development of nuclear weapons. The CTBT organization in Vienna operates a global network of measuring stations that can detect nuclear tests using pressure waves and chemical and nuclear traces.
Russia wants to continue supplying data from its own 32 stations. Moscow said Russia would only test nuclear weapons again if the United States did the same.
Source: Krone
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