Russia's top lawmaker said on Friday that parliamentary bosses will swiftly consider revoking ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty after President Vladimir Putin held out the possibility of resuming nuclear testing. A resumption in nuclear tests by Russia, the United States or both would be profoundly destabilizing at a time when tensions between the two countries are greater than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
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
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