US EditionTrump Claims that China and Russia Secretly Conduct Nuke Tests
- During a CBS News '60 Minutes' interview on Nov. 2, 2025, Former United States President Donald Trump alleged Russia and China are secretly conducting underground nuclear tests, saying `They don't go and tell you about it`.
- Trump ordered the United States to resume testing after 33 years, announced via social media minutes before a summit with Xi Jinping in South Korea, saying `we're going to test nuclear weapons like other countries do`.
- U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said planned U.S. checks are `system tests` and `These are not nuclear explosions`, describing them as `non-critical explosions` that test weapon parts.
- Beijing dismissed the claims as groundless and reaffirmed its testing moratorium, while the Chinese Foreign Ministry denied allegations and the international community expressed confusion over U.S. plans.
- No country except North Korea has carried out explosive tests in recent decades, with Russia halting detonations in 1990 and China in 1996; Russia recently tested nuclear-powered weapons but not detonation systems, while the CTBT bans all atomic test explosions amid varied ratification.
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CIA director, Senate intel chairman say Trump ‘is right’ about secret Russian and Chinese nuclear tests
President Trump’s claims that Russia and China are secretly testing nuclear weapons are correct, according to CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton.
China denies Trump's claim of secret nuclear tests, urges US to contribute to global stability
Beijing [China], November 4 (ANI): China has denied US President Donald Trump's claim that it is secretly conducting nuclear weapons tests, rejecting the allegation and calling it 'completely false.'Responding to Trump's remarks made during a CBS interview on Sunday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Monday that Beijing maintains a self-defensive nuclear strategy and follows its moratorium o
This self-fulfilling prophecy is what Trump is counting on
Trump is incapable of allowing tensions and stresses to ease without creating new ones.Case in point: After meeting with China’s president Xi Jinping this past week, he announces that China and the United States — the largest and second-largest economies in the world — will de-escalate the trade war.Sounds good, I suppose (until you realize that the two nations are now back to where they were before Trump created the trade war in the first place…
The U.S. president said this Sunday in an interview with the CBS channel that Russia and China are doing nuclear "tests", "but don't talk about it." For this reason, he believes that the U.S. "must do it" as well.
Trump says Pakistan is testing nukes. Here's what its arsenal looks like
Pakistan’s estimated arsenal of around 170 warheads remains regionally focused, with an emphasis on short-range and tactical systems. India has stressed it maintains a declared no first use policy, that it “will not give in to nuclear blackmail” and will continue to take all necessary measures to safeguard national security.
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