Professor Peter Kuznick, Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University in Washington, told TASS on Oct. 30 that the U.S. resumption of nuclear testing would threaten to undermine the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. “Trump’s impulsive and ignorant statement about resuming nuclear testing was truly terrifying. Not because it would blow up the CTBT, which the U.S. has never ratified but, like Russia and China, continues to adhere to, but because it reflected how little understanding Trump has about nuclear weapons and their use and because it shows how recklessly impetuous Trump is,” Kuznick said.
According to Kuznick, “the reality is that the U.S. is nowhere near ready to begin underground nuclear testing.” “It would probably take the U.S. three years to get ready to test,” the expert predicted. “And the U.S., with its stockpile stewardship program, has no need for such testing, which would only trigger similar moves by Russia and China and others, who actually would benefit from such testing far more than the U.S. would,” he pointed out.
