Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu responded to the debate over U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that the U.S. will restart nuclear testing, by noting that the Russian Federation has always kept its test sites ready for use, reported TASS on Oct. 31. He also emphasized that nuclear weapons testing in Russia is conducted regularly, but not physically, rather through mathematical models. According to him, such activities are necessary because the field of nuclear technologies requires constant “attention and improvement.”
“Testing has not stopped in any country, not for a single day, not for a single hour. But the only difference is that it has been carried out using computational techniques,” Shoigu said, summing up the first session at the international festival “Peoples of Russia and the CIS.”
Ambassador Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, said. “President Trump’s decision to direct the Pentagon to immediately resume the tests of U.S. nuclear arms demands further explanations,” he wrote on his Telegram channel and X account. He explained that the U.S. president said that his decision had been motivated by other countries carrying out nuclear tests. “But the point is that other nuclear weapon states do not conduct nuclear test explosions which are prohibited by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty,” he remarked. Ulyanov pointed out that Russia recently held a test of nuclear delivery vehicles and not of nuclear explosives.
