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Trump Says US Will Resume Nuclear Testing
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0:14Now PlayingUS President Donald Trump has said he’s instructed the Defense Department to start testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with rivals such as Russia and China.
It’s unclear whether he means detonating nuclear warheads, which would reverse decades of American policy and violate a de facto global ban, or a scale-up of something the country already does: testing weapons delivery systems, such as intercontinental ballistic missiles, that can carry nuclear warheads.
A return to explosive nuclear testing isn’t a new idea in Trump’s orbit. Senior officials reportedly considered the move during his first term in office, and last summer, Robert O’Brien, who served as Trump’s national security adviser from 2019 to 2021, made a public push for the US to resume full-scale live tests to “maintain technical and numerical superiority” over Russia and China’s combined nuclear stockpiles.
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