Russian Testing:  “Non-Nuclear Experiments” to Continue, Ivanov Says

While Russia has no plans to resume testing nuclear weapons, it will continue “non-nuclear experiments,” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Thursday at the Novaya Zemlya test range (see GSN, June 27).  Since ending nuclear testing, Russia has performed 132 hydrodynamic tests to represent nuclear explosions, Ivanov said.  There are also no plans to reduce the funding or number of troops at the test range, he added (RFE/RL Newsline, June 28).

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