TRUMP DIRECTS DEFENSE DEPT. TO ‘IMMEDIATELY’ START TESTING NUCLEAR WEAPONS ON AN EQUAL BASIS

Thu 30 October 2025:

President Donald Trump declared on Thursday that he has directed the Defense Department to start nuclear weapons testing without delay.

“Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, referring to his rebranded name for the department.

Stressing that the US has “more Nuclear Weapons than any other country,” he said this was accomplished during his first term, including “a complete update and renovation of existing weapons.”

He warned, however, that the US’s adversaries are catching up.

“Because of the tremendous destructive power, I HATED to do it, but had no choice! Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years,” he said.

Trump’s post came while returning from South Korea, where he had met Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, he said the decision was related to the actions of the other nuclear-armed nations, which “seem to all be nuclear testing.”

“We have more nuclear weapons than anybody. We don’t do testing. We’ve halted it years, many years ago. But with others doing testing, I think it’s appropriate that we do also,” he added.

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The U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, unleashing the nuclear age and kicking off the deadliest competition in history.

SIPRI warns of a “dangerous new arms race,” with modernization costing trillions. One misstep? Global catastrophe. Yet, hope flickers: The 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has 70+ signatories but none with nukes.

US and Russia have been slowly retiring some of their nuclear weapons, China has been expanding its stockpile – up from 350 in 2022, according to the Federation of American Scientists, to 410 in 2023, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

But the US’s count of nuclear weapons was still nine times that number – 3,708 in 2023.

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