Lavrov complained that Russia had not yet received any diplomatic explanation from the United States about “what Trump meant.”
“It is unclear whether they were talking about testing nuclear weapons carriers, about conducting so-called subcritical tests. Or whether Trump really spoke about Washington’s intention to resume full-scale nuclear tests,” the Russian minister noted. “The comments of Washington representatives that make it into the public space rather indicate that they do not have a common understanding of what the US President had in mind.”
According to Lavrov, the order of the illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin to assess the feasibility of resuming nuclear tests in the Russian Federation (sounded at a Security Council meeting on November 5) “has been accepted for execution and is being worked on.”
Context
Trump on the night of October 30 ordered the Pentagon start nuclear tests on “equal terms” in response to tests from other countries. He did not specify which ones, but in the message he mentioned, in particular, the aggressor country Russia, which recently announced tests of an underwater nuclear drone and a cruise missile with nuclear potential.
Later, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright clarified that American tests do not involve the direct detonation of warheads.
