US could give Russia's green light on nuclear weapons testing - Newsweek

Washington conducted underground tests aimed at "identifying low -power nuclear explosions around the world," the US Department of Energy is stated. The trials were conducted a few hours after the Russian Parliament voted for the withdrawal of the ratification of the Nuclear Testing Agreement.

"These experiments are promoting our efforts to develop new technologies to support the US goals for non -proliferation of nuclear weapons," said Kori Hinderstein, Deputy NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nuclear Nucleus. According to him, this will help reduce global nuclear threats by better detection of nuclear testing. According to Newsweek journalists, the United States may have been given the Green Light of the Russian Federation for nuclear weapons testing.

In turn, experts on weapons control stated that the withdrawal of the Russian Federation shows that the Kremlin is ready to restore nuclear tests, and the Russian Federation has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. The speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin stated that Moscow leaves the treaty because of the "irresponsible attitude" of the United States to global security. Russian President Vladimir Putin, in turn, made repeated statements about nuclear weapons.

According to him, the Russian Federation will be ready to use a weapon of mass destruction to protect the territory of the Russian Federation. Some analysts have expressed fears that the de -occupation of Crimea would be a "red line" for Putin. Recently, Kremlin representative Mikhail Kovalchuk proposed to test nuclear weapons on a landfill on a new land to intimidate the event.