# Russian diplomat slams Trump’s nuclear-test instructions as threat to moratorium

https://mins.news/en/item/71894

- TASS, 2026-09-24 07:46 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2191981

> Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said US President Donald Trump’s order to prepare for nuclear tests directly threatens the moratorium that has kept the world from falling into another nuclear arms race. She argued that Washington’s accusations over alleged CTBT-incompatible activity are unsubstantiated and signal another attempt to abandon US international commitments.

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