On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that a powerful new strategic missile had undergone a successful test, but he did not completely rule out the potential that Russia may soon conduct nuclear-explosive weapons testing for the first time in more than three decades.
Putin said that Moscow’s Burevestnik cruise missile, a nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable weapon with a potential range of many thousands of kilometers, had undergone a successful test.
Additionally, Putin revealed that construction on Russia’s Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile system—another crucial component of its new generation of nuclear weapons—had nearly finished during an annual meeting of experts and journalists. Since beginning his invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Putin has constantly emphasized Russia’s nuclear power. He said that no one in their right mind would use nuclear weapons against Russia.
According to him, if such an attack were to discovered, “so many of our missiles – hundreds, hundreds – would appear in the air that not a single enemy would have a chance of survival.” Putin could not completely rule out the potential that Russia may undertake such testing, despite the fact that it has not performed a nuclear explosive test since 1990, the year before the fall of the Soviet Union. He pointed out that while Russia had signed and ratified the nuclear test prohibition pact, the United States had not. The Russian parliament, the Duma, could potentially rescind its ratification, he claimed. A restart of nuclear testing by Russia, the United States, or both, according to military strategists, would be profoundly destabilizing at a time when tensions between the two nations are at their highest point in 60 years.
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