Nuclear-arms control has long been eroding. But Russia’s war in Ukraine has made the dangers more acute. How likely is a test in 2024? | The World Ahead
With the Christopher Nolan film Oppenheimer raking in millions at the box office this past summer, Americans are being transported back to the dawn of the atomic age, weapons of devastating power were being tested and built and tested. The first two finished products each ended a world war in horrific fashion and signaled the […]
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The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty is a multilateral arms control Treaty negotiated in the mid-1990s which sought to ban all nuclear weapons tests. In October 2023, President Vladmir Putin directed the revocation of Russian ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which Russia’s rubber-stamp Duma promptly did. As early as March 2023, Putin hinted Russia might resume nuclear testing. Much of the media commentary takes Russia’s hedged claim that it will not resume nuclear testing at face value. Putin has indicated that “…if the United States conducts a nuclear test, we will also carry it out.” This apparently will be the bogus political rationale for resumed Russian nuclear testing. In October 2023, Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s envoy to the United Nations in Vienna, stated that, “Never say never. Tests may resume under certain circumstances.” (Emphasis in the original), Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was more specific, saying resumed Russian n