Russia announced on Monday that has prepared the facilities of the Novaya Zemlya nuclear test site (Arctic), which was the scene of the last Soviet atomic test in 1990, in response to steps taken by the United States.
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“This was also done in response to Washington’s steps, which in recent years has focused on improving the infrastructure in this area,” Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, according to RIA Novosti.
Ryabkov thus confirmed the information published by the Russian press about the “full readiness” of the nuclear test site.
“The test site is ready for the resumption of large-scale testing activities. It is fully prepared (…) The personnel are ready. If the order comes, we can start the test at any time,” Rear Admiral Andrei Sinitsin, head of the test site located in the Arctic archipelago, told Rossiskaya Gazeta.
The military officer stressed that if the Russian authorities decide to resume the tests, this order “will be carried out within the established time frame.”
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At the same time, Ryabkov stressed that Russia’s stance on nuclear testing has not changed since Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law revoking ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in November 2023.
“As determined and formulated by the President of Russia, we can carry out such tests, “But we will not do so if the US (also) refrains from such steps,” he said.
Riabkov thus responded to the question of whether Moscow will conduct nuclear tests in response to Western authorization for kyiv to use its long-range missiles against targets on Russian territory.
Putin recently warned that if the West gives birth to kyiv, “it will mean that NATO countries, the US and European countries will be at war with Russia.”
Some Russian politicians and analysts have in recent months urged the Kremlin to approve a nuclear test as a warning to the West for supplying arms to Ukraine.
Coinciding with the XXII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, On 30 October 1961, Novaya Zemlya was the site of the test of the most powerful atomic bomb in history, known as the Tsar Bomba.
The aerial test was carried out with the help of a Tu-95 bomber and the bomb was dropped by parachute, an explosion that was equivalent to 50 megatons.
The USSR carried out its last nuclear test – eight charges with a yield of 70 kilotons – on 24 October 1990, also in Novaya Zemlya.
The CTBC, adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 September 1996, has been signed by 185 countries, including Russia, which ratified it on 30 June 2000.
Nine countries have never ratified it, including the United States, China, Iran and Israel, while India, Pakistan, North Korea and Syria have not even signed it.
North Korea, which recently published the first images of its uranium enrichment plants, is the only country to have conducted a nuclear test in the 21st century.
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