Russia’s nuclear tests site is ready to resume tests at ‘any time'

Russian nuclear test facility head, Rear Admiral Andrei Sinitsyn, has said that Moscow is ready to resume its nuclear testing at any moment. News organisations, quoting Russian state newspapers, opined that Russian think-tank wants its President Putin to order a nuclear test in order to send a strong message to the West in retaliation against the potential use of long-range ballistic missiles by Ukraine.

Ukraine has been asking the U.S. and European countries to support it with arms and funds in the war with Russia, and also allow the use of ballistic missiles made by the European countries, to fire deep inside the Russian territory.

A few days back, Britain’s former secretaries and a Prime Minister had even asked Britain Prime Minister Keir Starmer to allow Ukraine to use British long-range ballistic missile Storm Shadows. Ukraine wants to use U.S. ATACMS too, against Russia. Russia has been maintaining that if Ukraine uses long-range ballistic missiles developed by the West, the West would be directly joining the war.

News organisations opine that if Russia goes for a nuclear test, the era of nuclear tests by nations will against come back, and a new threat will loom over the Globe. Russia is one of the biggest nuclear-power in the world, and the last nuclear test it did was in 1990, the year before the fall of the Soviet Union. Russia's testing site is located in remote Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, where Russia has so far conducted over 200 nuclear tests.