Head of organization overseeing nuclear test ban treaty issues warning to US and Russia
Robert Floyd said the treaty’s monitoring system can detect even small blasts and warned any new test could trigger a wider nuclear testing spiral.
- On Wednesday, Robert Floyd, executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, warned that if the United States, Russia, or other nations resume nuclear testing, it would trigger a dangerous 'spiral' that may never be stopped.
- Late last year, the United States and Russia, which possess the world's largest nuclear arsenals, threatened to resume nuclear testing, setting off global alarm bells. President Donald Trump subsequently instructed the Defense Department to prepare for tests on an equal basis.
- Floyd noted the treaty's international monitoring system detects any nuclear weapons explosion worldwide. He recently told Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov 'that it is not in any state' to see an unconstrained return to testing.
- Although adopted in 1996, the treaty remains inactive because it requires ratification by 44 specific countries; nine have not yet done so. Floyd argued that China, Russia, and the United States ratifying together would be a 'powerful step forward.'
- Floyd issued this warning as the United Nations began reviewing a separate treaty preventing nuclear weapons spread. This review coincides with the ongoing Iran war, which Trump cited as necessary to prevent Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
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Head of organization overseeing nuclear test ban treaty issues warning to US and Russia
The head of the organization overseeing a treaty banning nuclear testing is warning that if the United States, Russia or any other nation goes ahead with a test, other nations will follow.
Nuclear weapons monitor warns over risk of escalation
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBO), the international organisation that monitors compliance with the non-proliferation treaty, is urging the great powers to halt any intention to resume testing and to push to ratify the treaty and make it official. Its executive secretary, Robert Floyd, spoke to UN correspondents in a worrying tone, saying, “It’s a spiral that we do not want to see start, because it may never be able t…
UNITED NATIONS- The head of the organization that oversees a nuclear test-ban treaty warned Wednesday that if the United States, Russia or any other nation does a test, other countries will do the same. “That’s a spiral we don’t want to see begin, because it may never stop,” said Robert Floyd, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, to correspondents at the UN.
The head of the organization that oversees a nuclear test-ban treaty warned Wednesday that if the United States, Russia, or any other nation does a test, other countries will do the same.
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