Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his top officials to draft proposals for a possible test of nuclear weapons, something the country has not done since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
This is in response to President Donald Trump’s announcement last week that the U.S. would resume nuclear testing.
“I am instructing the Foreign Ministry, the Defence Ministry… the special services and relevant civilian agencies to do everything possible to collect additional information on the issue, analyse it at the Security Council and make agreed proposals on the possible start of work on the preparation of nuclear weapons tests,” Putin said in televised remarks on Wednesday.
