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The United States and Russia have revived the nuclear cold war: countries with nuclear test targets and nuclear weapons

Like Trump, Putin has fueled the nuclear threat after more than three decades of interruption. Russia last conducted nuclear tests in 1990 and the United States in 1992. 

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US President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear tests "immediately". In this context, Russian President Vladimir Putin has advanced that if the United States initiates nuclear tests, Russia will do the same.

The United States carried out the latest nuclear weapons tests in 1992 and the Soviet Union in 1990. When the latter was dissolved, Russia seized most of that arsenal, so it has not conducted any nuclear tests since Russia.

How many nuclear tests have been conducted so far?

The nuclearera began in July 1945 with the launch of an atomic bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico. In August of the same year, it launched them into the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Then Japan surrendered and World War II ended.

The late Soviet Union detonated its first nuclear device in August 1949. From 1945 to 1996 (Treaty on the Total Prohibition of Nuclear Tests, CTBT), more than 2,000 nuclear tests were conducted worldwide, according to UN data: 1,032 US, 715 Soviet Union, 210 France, 45 UKand 45 China.

Since the establishment of the Treaty on the Total Prohibition of Nuclear Tests (CTBTO) in 1997, only 10 nuclear tests have been conducted: IndiaK 2 (1998), PakistanK 2 (1998) and North KoreaK 6 (2006-2017).

Although the Treaty has never entered into force, the nuclear ceasefire has so far been respected by all the major nuclear weapons powers (the US, China, France, the United Kingdom and Russia), an achievement of the Treaty on the Total Prohibition of Nuclear Tests.

Nuclear tests.

On the one hand, access to information and, on the other hand, send a signal.

These tests are useful for obtaining evidence that demonstrates the potential and effectiveness of nuclear weapons.

It is also used for a demonstration of force against the other nuclear powers.

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Countries with nuclear warheads

Russia, the United States, China, France, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea are the countries with nuclear warheads.

Although it is unknown how many each country has, according to the American Federation of Scientists, Russia has 5,459 and the United States 5,177.

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