President Vladimir Putin said Russia’s nuclear doctrine did not need updating but that he was not yet ready to say whether or not the country needed to resume nuclear tests
Russia on Friday 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 U.S. President Joe Biden, according to the Federation of American Scientists. China has a total of 410 warheads, France 290 and Britain 225. Putin said on Thursday that Russia had successfully tested a nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable cruise missile – the Burevestnik – whose capabilities he has called unmatched.
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