US EditionTrump asks Pentagon to immediately resume testing US nuclear weapons
- In a post shortly before a meeting with Xi, Trump ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear testing in Gyeongju, South Korea on Wednesday, saying `That process will begin immediately.`
- Citing recent Russian tests, Trump said the U.S. has more nuclear weapons than Russia and China, warning rivals are closing the gap after Russia’s underwater weapon and missile tests.
- The United States has not tested explosively since 1992, but it retains the ability to resume tests at the Nevada National Security Site.
- Experts immediately disputed the rationale, with Tom Nichols, retired professor at the U.S. Naval War College, flattening multiple claims from Trump late Wednesday.
- During his first term, Trump sought a nearly tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal and claimed it included `a complete update and renovation of existing weapons`.
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Owensboro Messenger-InquirerTrump's comments on nuclear testing upend decades of US policy. Here's what to know about it
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For over thirty years, Washington has been conducting no checks on its atomic bombs. A message to Russia. We own it more than any other country.
Donald Trump says he has ordered the Pentagon to begin testing US nuclear weapons. He made the announcement just before his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. “The process begins immediately,” Trump wrote in his post.
Donald Trump ordered the U.S. Army to resume nuclear weapons testing immediately on Thursday, a decision that is a first in 33 years for the U.S. and that the U.S. President...
Washington and Moscow remain bound by the New Start disarmament treaty, which limits each party to 1,550 offensive strategic warheads deployed and provides for a verification mechanism, which has been suspended for two years.
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