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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Trump’s Nuclear Weapon Tests Won’t Include Nuke Explosions - LewRockwell
Last week U.S. President Donald Trump published a confused tweet about nuclear testing: … Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. … Some media panicky wrote that Trump had ordered to detonate nuclear warheads. I disagreed with that interpretation: All nuclear warheads the U.S. has are under the control of the Department of Energy. It is the sol…
American president Trump has announced new experiments of atomic warheads. His minister for energy has specified that there will be no detonations of devices. So the experiments have gone on after the treaties
Donald Trump announces resumption of nuclear testing. Energy Minister Wright relativized: No nuclear explosions planned.
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