Putin signs steps back from the CTBT

Putin signs  way back from the CTBT  Date 2nd November, 2023  President Vladimir Putin on Thursday  inked a bill  repealing Russia’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban, a move that Moscow said was  demanded to establish  equality with the United States.  

Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) is an agreement banning any nuclear armament test explosion or any other nuclear explosion anywhere in the world. This was made in 1996 but was  not  completely  enforced, countries like US, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel, Iran, China and Egypt are yet to be  permission the treaty  In a stark warning to the West, Putin said that Russia could  renew nuclear testing for the first time in over three decades. Russian leader Putin before this month reignited enterprises of nuclear war after he declared that the ‘Satan- 2’ and ‘Flying Chernobyl’ dumdums would be ready soon. Putin claimed Russia had “virtually finished work on the ultramodern strategic munitions” that he’d been talking about and had blazoned a many times agony.

This decision may lead to a US- Russia arms war again after decades of silence.

Reference

Vladimir Putin signs Russia’s withdrawal from the treaty banning nuclear tests | Euronews

Written By- Pradyumna R Kallavi, College- Bangalore Institute Of Legal Studies, Batch-2, task 2 semester legal journalism intern at legal Vidhya

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