JAKARTA - Head of Russia's Security Council Sergey Shoygu said Russia would conduct nuclear tests if other countries did.
He stated this the day after US President Donald Trump ordered the United States military to restart the nuclear weapons testing process after 33 years of discontinued.
"Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, commander-in-chief, has responded to this. If they start conducting trials, of course we will do the same," Shoigu said as quoted by ANTARA from Anadolu, Saturday, November 1.
"I see nothing new here; this is a natural response. If they didn't, we wouldn't have done it either," he said.
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At TruthSocial on Thursday, Trump said he had ordered the Department of Defense to immediately start testing nuclear weapons.
"The process will begin soon," he said.
Earlier, Moscow said Russia, which this month tested nuclear-powered cruise missiles and autonomous torpedoes, had not yet carried out actual nuclear weapons testing.
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