SpaceWar.com reports: “Moscow voiced alarm Tuesday at Washington’s assertion it will resume nuclear testing to match alleged secret explosions by China and Russia, warning such a move would spark a dangerous ‘domino effect’.

Speaking before the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Russian ambassador Gennady Gatilov decried US President Donald Trump’s announcement last year that his country was prepared to stage its first nuclear test since 1992.

‘We warn that the US withdrawal from its national moratorium would trigger a domino effect,’ he said, speaking through a translator, stressing that ‘the responsibility for the consequences would rest entirely with Washington’.

Christopher Yeaw, the US assistant secretary of state for arms control and nonproliferation, indicated last week that Trump was serious when he said in October that the United States would resume nuclear testing…”