The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, interpreted the order of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to begin nuclear tests as “an erosion of the sense of international security, of peace and of non-proliferation”, international media reported. “After all, all these tests, all these developments, are nothing more than external manifestations of a deep malaise, of a tension and of a fragmentation that is increasing,” he observed during an interview, as published by the RT Actualidad website. The Argentine Grossi pointed out that “at that moment the country flexes its muscles and shows what it is capable of”, but “it is already a manifestation of a deep malaise that exists”. In this sense, he suggested trying to protect the non-proliferation regimes and “return to the United Nations its role in maintaining international peace and security”. Did China and Russia conduct nuclear tests? In expressing his opinion regarding Trump's accusations that countries like China and Russia had supposedly conducted “secret” nuclear tests, Grossi clarified that he “does not know if it is true or not”, but recalled that traditional tests do not go unnoticed due to an international monitoring system. “I do not make a judgment on Mr. Trump, but regarding traditional tests, we have an international monitoring system established by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and controlled by a sister organization of mine in Vienna, which is the organization for the prohibition of nuclear tests, which can immediately capture phenomena of this kind,” he affirmed.
