Russia’s military has conducted a simulated nuclear strike in a drill overseen by President Vladimir Putin, hours after the upper house of parliament voted to rescind the country’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub
Russia’s minister of defence, Sergei Shoigu, said the purpose of the drill was to practise ‘dealing a massive nuclear strike with strategic offensive forces in response to a nuclear strike by the enemy’. State television showed Putin directing the exercise via video call with top military officials. The test ban treaty, adopted in 1996, bans all nuclear explosions anywhere in the world, but the treaty was never fully implemented. The treaty is yet to be ratified by China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, Israel, Iran and Egypt.
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