mo4ch:>Pentagon tells same old story: Russia ‘PROBABLY’ violating nuke treaty... that US never ratified | Mo4ch News

Washington’s fearmongering about Russia has reached new heights, with the Pentagon now suggesting that Moscow might be conducting nuclear tests banned by a treaty which the US never even ratified.Lt. Gen. Robert P. Ashley Jr, the head of the Pentagon’s intelligence arm, disclosed during a speech at the right-wing Hudson Institute on Wednesday that the United States believes Russia has “probably” restarted low-yield nuclear tests, in violation of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).The fear, according to Ashley, is that Russia may be developing tactical nuclear weapons for use on conventional battlefields.Pressed about the claim in a question-and-answer session afterward, Ashley backed away from his provocative word choice – after all, “probably” is nearly as serious as “almost certainly” in Washington’s guilty-until-proven-innocent lexicon – and said only that Russia “has the capability” to conduct a test with a low nuclear yield.Also on rt.com‘Highly likely’ is the new evidence:…