In the future, we plan to respect the thirty-year moratorium on nuclear test explosions
– the ministry wrote in its announcement, adding that if the United States conducts such experiments en masse, it will force Russia to do the same.
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law canceling Russia’s ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
At the same time, Russia remains a “signatory state with all the accompanying rights and obligations,” the Foreign Ministry said.
The agreement, which was opened for signature in 1996, has not yet entered into force, because it requires ratification by all 44 countries that possess nuclear technology, which has not yet happened. Among other things, the United States has not ratified the agreement.
According to Russian military doctrine, nuclear weapons can only be used for defensive purposes if Russia is attacked with weapons of mass destruction, or if an aggression against it with conventional weapons would “threaten the existence of nuclear weapons.” the state”.
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