Overview
- Sergei Lavrov said ministries have begun implementing Vladimir Putin’s Nov. 5 instruction to prepare proposals on the feasibility of Russian nuclear tests.
- The directive tasks the Foreign Ministry, Defence Ministry, intelligence services and civilian agencies with outlining options if the United States abandons the CTBT moratorium.
- Lavrov said the public will be informed of the results once the work is completed.
- He added that Russia has no clarification through diplomatic channels on whether Washington envisions carrier trials, subcritical experiments or full-scale detonations.
- Reporting notes the Trump administration later said any US testing would exclude nuclear explosions, as Russia–US ties worsen with a canceled summit and new sanctions.