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.

“I 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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