The Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov made it clear that the test site on the Arctic archipelago can be ready at short notice.
On Wednesday afternoon, November 5, Vladimir Putin held a meeting in the Kremlin with the permanent members of the Security Council.
”I am instructing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, special services, and relevant civilian agencies to do everything possible to gather additional information on this issue, analyze it at the Security Council level, and submit approved proposals for the possible commencement of work on preparing for nuclear weapons tests,” the dictator said after listening to input from members of the Security Council. […]
A transcript from Wednesday’s meeting has been posted by the Kremlin.
”The fact that the American side has not provided an official explanation for President Trump’s statement regarding the resumption of nuclear testing does not provide grounds to believe that the United States will not begin preparations for, and then conduct, nuclear tests in the near future,” Gerasimov said pointing to what U.S. President Donald Trump said last week about U.S. needs to resume nuclear tests.
The U.S. President, however, did not mean full-scale nuclear tests, his Energy Secretary Chris Wright clarified later. Läs artikel