Russia warning as Vladimir Putin close to first nuclear bomb tests for 35 years
The world is waiting for Russian President Vladimir Putin to plan to give the green light to nuclear bombs on the former Arctic Soviet site in the Novaya Zemlyaa archipelago
Russia is getting closer to nuclear bombs tests for the first time in 35 years, warned a security expert in Moscow.
The military specialist Dmitry Stefanovich is the last to note that Vladimir Putin could soon sanction the restart. It is said that the former Arctic Soviet test site in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago is ready – if the dictator gives the order.
The latest confirmed tests in North Korea took place in September 2017 and it is understood that the main Russian politicians pro-war inspected the test site. Now the world is waiting to see if the Russian president gives the green light.
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“We are closer to this situation at any time since the last nuclear tests in North Korea,” said Stefanovich, of the Russian Center for International Security, and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Lieutenant -general Andrey Gurulev posted the location: “You know, there are a lot of fascinating things that I could say on the test site – but unfortunately, I cannot. The only thing I can say is that we are entirely ready for combat.”
Some carconthes urged Putin to perform a new test in the clearest warning to the West that he will not compromise on Ukraine. The director of the installation, the counter-admiral Andrei Sinitsyn, said that the site was ready for a new nuclear test.
“The test site is ready to resume large-scale test activities,” he said. “It is entirely ready. The laboratory and test facilities are ready. The staff are ready. If the order is given, we will start testing at any time.”
Stefanovich said the pressure would occur for the tests of new experts to guarantee positions in the Russian nuclear weapons complex. “Once a new generation takes over in management positions within nuclear arms complexes, these discussions will intensify,” he said that there was no technical reason for new tests.
“We have extremely expensive technology and machines that allow us to check the warheads without live tests,” he said. “I fear that over the next 10 or 15 years, it will be the technical arguments that dominate.”
Novaya Zemlya is known for her role as a Soviet nuclear test site during the Cold War. The tsar bomb – the most powerful nuclear bomb ever exploded – was tested there on October 30, 1961.
The explosion was so large that it caused shock waves that went around the earth several times, and its cloud of mushrooms reached more than 37 miles in the sky.
In total, 130 nuclear tests were carried out on Novaya Zemlyaa by the Soviet Union between 1955 and 1990. Among these, 86 were atmospheric, 39 underground and three underwater, according to declassified documents.
