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ROGERS, MCCAUL, WICKER, RISCH STATEMENT ON RUSSIA'S DE--RATIFICATION OF CTBT

Statement

Date: Oct. 31, 2023
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Defense

"Russia's "de-ratification' of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty lays bare Putin's disdain for anything that might interfere with his nuclear ambitions. The CTBT, rejected by the Senate in 1999, is a hollow, fatally-flawed regime. Despite this obvious truth, the Biden administration continues to waste time and money looking for ways to prop up this irrelevant treaty in hopes of reducing the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. defense. The administration should not allow a single additional U.S. taxpayer dollar to go towards implementing ineffective agreements. Instead, it should focus on holding our adversaries accountable for their actions and modernizing an aging nuclear deterrent that is increasingly not fit for the growing 21st century threats."


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