Russia has responded to U.S. President Donald Trump ordering the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing “on an equal basis” with Russia and China.
The Kremlin denied Russia’s tests of the Burevestnik missile at a nuclear facility contravened nuclear weapons testing regulations.
“If [Trump] is somehow referring to the Burevestnik test [as a nuclear test conducted by a certain country], then this is not a nuclear test in any way. All countries are developing their defense systems, but this is not a nuclear test,” Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin‘s press secretary said according to the state-run TASS news agency.
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