The world’s two largest nuclear powers in 1996 signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, a landmark agreement that aims to completely ban all nuclear tests.

Russia has not officially conducted a nuclear test since 1990, the year before the collapse of the U.S.S.R.

β€œI instruct the Foreign Ministry, the Defense Ministry, the special services and relevant civilian agencies to gather additional information, analyze it at the Security Council a

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