US EditionUS Will Not Conduct Nuclear Explosions Despite Trump Order
- On Sunday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said tests ordered by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions in the Nevada desert, calling them system tests focused on weapon components.
- Following a social‑media announcement last week, President Donald Trump posted that he had instructed the Department of War to restart testing U.S. nuclear weapons after decades without detonations at Nevada National Security Site.
- Using simulation and computation, Wright said, `With our science and our computation power, we can simulate incredibly accurately exactly what will happen in a nuclear explosion` and tests will verify weapon setup without detonations.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday the Pentagon is moving quickly on the president's directive, while the Kremlin warned Russia would resume testing if the U.S. does and lawmakers and international observers urged transparency.
- The treaty record shows the U.S. signed but did not ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear‑Test‑Ban Treaty, and Russia and the United States together hold around 90 percent of global nuclear weapons.
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The Political InsiderUS Nuclear Weapon Testing Won’t Involve Any Explosions, Energy Secretary Says
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Sunday that no nuclear explosions will take place during the nuclear weapons testing ordered by President Donald Trump. Wright told Fox News the tests are non-nuclear explosions and are intended to assess all the other parts of a nuclear weapon to make sure “they deliver the appropriate geometry” and can set up a nuclear explosion. “I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system tests,” Wright sa…
Energy secretary: US weapons tests won’t involve nuclear explosions
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Sunday that the weapons testing that President Trump ordered last week will not include nuclear explosions. “I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system tests. These are not nuclear explosions. These are what we call noncritical explosions,” Wright said on Fox News’s “The Sunday Briefing.” “So…
According to energy minister Wright, the nuclear tests ordered by US President Trump will not include nuclear explosions for the time being.
Trump's nuclear system tests will not include explosions, US energy secretary clarifies
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that new US nuclear weapons system tests ordered by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions. “These are system tests, not nuclear explosions,” Wright said on Fox News Sunday Briefing. “We call them noncritical explosions.” He explained that the tests will check the non-nuclear parts of the weapons to make sure they work correctly but will not cause any nuclear blast. Trump’s social …
American energy minister Chris Wright speaks to Fox News of "System Testing". US President Trump had previously caused a stir with his announcement of nuclear testing, but did not do it more precisely.
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