U.S. Believes Russia Has Restarted Low-Yield Nuclear Tests
By Julian E. Barnes and William J. Broad
Ballistic missile systems were paraded through Red Square in Moscow during a Victory Day celebration this month. Russia may have restarted low-yield nuclear testing.Mladen Antonov/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Ballistic missile systems were paraded through Red Square in Moscow during a Victory Day celebration this month. Russia may have restarted low-yield nuclear testing.Mladen Antonov/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration believes Russia has restarted very low-yield nuclear tests, officials said on Wednesday in a finding that could be used to renew in earnest the arms race between Moscow and Washington.
But the significance of the statements by the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and a senior National Security Council official was immediately debated by nuclear weapons experts.
Some experts said claims of low-yield tests would be nothing new. Intelligence officials and nuclear analysts in Washington have long raised the possibility of such violations going back nearly two decades, to when Russia ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 2000.
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