Trump, Putin Nuclear Diplomacy Possible As US Claims Russia Conducting Weapons Tests?

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Russia has offered to open talks with the United States after President Donald Trump accused Moscow of secretly conducting underground nuclear tests. The Kremlin rejects all allegations but says it’s ready to ‘discuss suspicions’ to avoid a new arms race.  Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s statement marks the first public attempt at de-escalation between the world’s top nuclear powers in months — amid Trump’s controversial order to restart US atomic tests. What’s behind this dangerous standoff, and could nuclear diplomacy be collapsing before our eyes?    #Russia #Trump #NuclearTensions #USRussia #Putin #GlobalNews #WorldPolitics #NuclearWeapons #BreakingNews #Geopolitics #World   🔊 LIKE ➡ SHARE ➡ SUBSCRIBE  Download the Asianet News App now!  Available on Android & iOS  👉 Android:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vserv.asianet&hl=en_IN   👉 iOS:  https://apps.apple.com/in/app/asianet-news-official/id1093450032   For More Updates:  Follow us on our What's app Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va5Bq3yKwqSLSQTxam0r  English: https://newsable.asianetnews.com/  Hindi: https://hindi.asianetnews.com/  Malayalam: https://www.asianetnews.com/  Kannada: https://kannada.asianetnews.com/  Tamil: https://tamil.asianetnews.com/  Telugu: https://telugu.asianetnews.com/  Bengali: https://bangla.asianetnews.com/  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AsianetNewsa...  Follow us on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/AsianetNewsEN  Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ann.newsable/  ➡ If you like our video, give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel to get the daily dosage of news, entertainment, sports and more.

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00:00Russia on 11th November offered to discuss with the United States allegations from Washington

00:05that it had carried out secret underground nuclear tests in a bid to ease tensions between

00:11the world's top two nuclear superpowers. Russia has tested its nuclear-powered,

00:17nuclear-capable weapon systems in recent weeks, but rejects the accusation by US President Donald

00:24Trump that it had secretly detonated a nuclear device. Trump caused concern and confusion last

00:31month when he said he was ordering the United States to test its atomic weapons in retaliation

00:37for drills carried out by Russia and China, accusations rejected by both Moscow and Beijing.

00:45None of the three countries has publicly tested a nuclear warhead since the 1990s,

00:50and all three have signed, but not ratified, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

00:56that bans all atomic test blasts, whether for military or civilian purposes.

01:02Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov offered on 11th November to speak to Washington

01:07about its concerns. He told state media in a televised interview,

01:13We are ready to discuss the suspicions raised by our American colleagues regarding the possibility

01:19that we might be secretly doing something deep underground. Trump had levelled the accusations

01:25that both Russia and China had secretly tested nuclear weapons in an interview with US broadcaster

01:33CBS News earlier this month after abruptly shelving a proposed summit with Putin on Ukraine.

01:40Like all armed states, Russia regularly tests its delivery systems,

01:44but has rejected the accusation it has carried out unannounced weapons tests.

01:50Lavrov said the United States could check whether Russia had tested a nuclear warhead

01:54via the global seismic monitoring system.

01:58Lavrov added,

01:59Other tests, both subcritical or those without a chain nuclear reaction,

02:04and carrier tests, have never been prohibited.

02:08Russia said it had not received any clarification from Washington

02:11as to the specifics of its allegations.

02:15Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters during a telephone briefing,

02:20So far, no explanations have been provided by our American counterparts.

02:26Russia and the United States hold a combined 8,000 deployed and stored warheads,

02:31according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute,

02:35around 85% of the world's total.

02:38Lavrov's interview was his first televised appearance in almost two weeks,

02:43with his absence prompting media speculation that he might have fallen out with Putin,

02:48something that the Kremlin repeatedly denied.

02:52Press reports suggested that a planned summit between Putin and Trump in Budapest

02:57was cancelled after Lavrov had a tense phone call with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

03:04He addressed those claims directly, saying,

03:06We spoke well, politely, without any breakdown.

03:10Since the pair spoke, Lavrov said there had been no further steps from the Americans,

03:16who he said had initially proposed the summit.

03:20Trump shelved the plans and slapped Moscow with new sanctions,

03:24after saying Putin was not serious about ending the conflict in Ukraine.

03:29Lavrov said the recent nuclear tensions had nothing to do with the cancelled summit.

03:33He said, I would not mix the topic of nuclear tests with the topic of the Budapest summit.

03:39He said Moscow was still open to a possible meeting between Putin and Trump.

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