Trump says the United States will resume nuclear weapons testing

President Donald Trump said he has instructed the Pentagon to immediately begin testing nuclear weapons, citing the need to match “other countries’ testing programs.”

Trump Posted on Social Truth He included very few details about the nature of the tests, but said that “the process will begin immediately.” It is not clear whether Trump is referring to explosive tests of nuclear warheads or tests of systems capable of launching them.

Comments — coming A little earlier His upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who It led to a reduction in customs duties on Chinese imports — seems to upend decades of American policy. The last American nuclear test was in 1992, before George H.W. Bush issued a decision to stop nuclear testing at the end of the Cold War.

Trump’s post was full of errors: Russia, not the United States, has the right The largest nuclear stockpile in the worldNo country except North Korea has been confirmed to have conducted nuclear tests since the 1990s. According to To the United Nations. The United States is also a signatory to the international treaty banning nuclear weapons testing, although it has not ratified it.