MOSCOW: Moscow on Thursday sought to cool rising nuclear tensions with Washington, after two tests of new Russian nuclear-capable weapons systems prompted US President Donald Trump order his own nuclear tests. The Kremlin said its testing of nuclear-powered nuclear-capable weapons — the Burevestnik cruise missile and the Poseidon underwater drone — did not constitute a direct test of an atomic weapon. Both countries observe a de facto moratorium on testing nuclear warheads, though Russia regularly runs military drills involving systems that are capable of carrying such weapons.

Trump orders U.S. nuclear weapons testing amid rising tensions with Russia and China, following Putin's recent underwater drone test.

"All nations continue to advance the development of their defense systems, but this does not constitute a nuclear test," Dmitry Peskov emphasized

Dmitry Peskov noted that these tests cannot be regarded as nuclear ones in any way

Earlier, the US leader said that he had instructed the Pentagon to immediately resume nuclear weapons testing

MOSCOW: Moscow on Thursday sought to cool rising nuclear tensions with Washington, after two tests of new Russian nuclear-capable weapons systems prompted US President Donald…

Trump said he had instructed the Pentagon — rebranded as the "Department of War" — to resume nuclear testing.

Konstantin Kosachev believes that the whole point of these actions by the US and their NATO allies to undermine the system of arms control agreements was to remove the…