You know perfectly well that the US has never been a party to the CTBT @Amb_Ulyanov. The Senate rejected that treaty.
But we have abided by a zero-yield testing pledge since 1992 — the same pledge Russia made.
Unlike Russia, we keep our pledges. You’ve been violating yours.
President Trump’s decision to instruct the Pentagon to immediately resume testing of US nuclear weapons requires further clarification. The US President wants to test US nuclear arsenal on an “equal basis” with other nuclear powers. But the point is that other nuclear weapon states do not conduct nuclear test explosions which are prohibited by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. As far as Russia is concerned, it recently tested delivery vehicles, not nuclear explosive devices. Such tests have nothing to do with #CTBT. So, there is a need to understand precisely what the US is planning to do and how these plans correlate with the provisions of the CTBT.
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