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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Edith M. Lederer

Head of organization overseeing nuclear test ban treaty issues warning to US and Russia

UN Secretary General - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The head of the organization overseeing a treaty banning nuclear testing warned Wednesday that if the United States, Russia or any other nation goes ahead with a test, other nations will follow.

“That is a spiral that we do not want to see start, because it may never be able to be stopped,” Robert Floyd, executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, told U.N. correspondents.

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