If necessary and with the appropriate political will, the Novozemelsky nuclear test site is ready to resume nuclear tests. This was reported to TASS by the scientific director of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center — the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) Vyacheslav Solovyov.
"I'm ready," the head said. According to him, there is a "special program to maintain the readiness of the landfill."
It is noted that 130 atmospheric, underwater and underground tests were conducted at the landfill located on Novaya Zemlya, which is under the jurisdiction of the Russian Defense Ministry, from 1955 to 1990.
In February, Konstantin Sivkov, Doctor of Military Sciences, said that the deployment of American Arleigh Burke-type destroyers in the Barents Sea could ensure their interception of Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles.
