US resuming nuclear testing will lead to CTBT collapse

The US resuming nuclear testing would threaten to undermine the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), said Professor Peter Kuznick, Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University in Washington. In fact it will lead to its total collapse.

In 1998, USA and it’s lap dogs had sanctioned India when it had tested its nuclear weapons to break the monopoly and high headedness of the Western Powers.

Commenting on Donald Trump’s order to resume nuclear testing, Kuznick further said: “Trump’s impulsive and ignorant statement about resuming nuclear testing was truly terrifying.

Not because it would blow up the CTBT, which the US has never ratified but, like India, Russia and China, continue to adhere to but because it reflected how little understanding Trump has about nuclear weapons and their use and because it shows how recklessly impetuous Trump is.”

According to Kuznick, “the reality is that the US is nowhere near ready to begin underground nuclear testing.” “It would probably take the US three years to get ready to test,” the expert predicted. “And the US, with its stockpile stewardship program, has no need for such testing.

This would only trigger similar moves by India, Russia and China and even North Korea. Pakistan just cannot afford to test anything. So actually others would benefit from such testing far more than the US would.

Trump did not explain what tests he was referring to, including whether he meant nuclear warhead detonations. The US nuclear test site is located in the state of Nevada.

The White House, the US State Department, and the Pentagon did not respond to ‘ request for clarification or additional comments on Trump’s decision.

Earlier, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that Moscow “will act according to the situation” if the US abandons the moratorium on nuclear testing.