"US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing, an announcement made in a frighteningly vague social media post that threatens to shred decades of global progress and heighten tensions with China and Russia. Trump mentioned both of those nations in his post, which was published to Truth Social just ahead of the US president's meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping."
"Experts and nuclear nonproliferation advocates quickly began trying to parse Trump's statement and determine its implications for the global arms race. It's unclear from Trump's post whether he intends to resume explosive nuclear tests - the last of which was conducted underground in Nevada in 1992. Beatrice Fihn, former executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, warned that jumpstarting nuke tests would be "incredibly stupid" and pointed to the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which the US signed but never ratified."
US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing, releasing a vague social post that referenced China and Russia and preceded a meeting with Xi Jinping. The post incorrectly claimed the United States has more nuclear weapons than any other country and linked renewed testing to other countries' programs. Experts and nonproliferation advocates scrambled to interpret whether explosive tests would resume; the last US explosive test occurred underground in Nevada in 1992. Beatrice Fihn warned that restarting tests would be "incredibly stupid," cited the unratified 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and said renewed testing would harm and kill people.
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