MOSCOW, Oct 6 — Russia today indicated it was moving swiftly towards revoking its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty after President Vladimir Putin held...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin attend a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia July 31, 2023. — Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Kremlin pic via ReutersMOSCOW, Oct 6 — Russia today indicated it was moving swiftly towards revoking its ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty after President Vladimir Putin held out the possibility of resuming nuclear testing.
Just hours after Putin’s comments, Russia’s top lawmaker, Vyacheslav Volodin, said the State Duma lower house of parliament would swiftly consider if there was a need to revoke Russia’s ratification of the treaty. A resumption of nuclear tests by Russia, the United States or China could indicate the start of a new nuclear arms race between the big powers who stopped nuclear testing in the years following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
Putin controls around 5,889 nuclear warheads as of 2023, compared with 5,244 controlled by US President Joe Biden, according to the Federation of American Scientists. China has a total of 410 warheads, France 290 and Britain 225.In the five decades between 1945 and the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, more than 2,000 nuclear tests were carried out, 1,032 of them by the United States and 715 of them by the Soviet Union, according to the United Nations.
China is building hundreds of intercontinental ballistic missile silos, according to the 2023 Annual Threat Assessment by the US intelligence community.
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