The Russian government says it wants to continue to refrain from testing nuclear weapons. With one exception: If the US were to conduct “large-scale testing,” it would “be forced to do the same.” On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that revokes the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty (CTBT). for the country.
This provides for an end to all nuclear weapons testing and was signed in 1996. However, it has never been in force because not enough countries have ratified the treaty. This includes the nuclear powers US and China.
On Thursday, Putin signed a law repealing the ratification (see video above). US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called this a “major step in the wrong direction” that “takes us further away from the treaty’s entry into force, rather than closer.” The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) called for this. calls on the Russian government to do this in order to continue to adhere to the Nuclear Weapons Treaty and to enable the use of monitoring stations that can detect even small-scale explosions.
Putin tests ballistic missiles
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons several times. Last week, he took part in a ballistic missile test that Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu described as an exercise for a “massive” nuclear retaliation attack on an unnamed enemy. In early October, the head of the Kremlin said he was “not ready to say” whether his country would resume nuclear weapons testing.
Source: Krone
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