Trump orders US to start nuclear weapons testing
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Washington: US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has ordered the Pentagon to start nuclear weapons testing to equal China and Russia jus...
Washington: US President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has ordered the Pentagon to start nuclear weapons testing to equal China and Russia -- just minutes before opening a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
The move comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Moscow had successfully tested a nuclear-capable, nuclear-powered underwater drone, in defiance of Washington's warnings.
"Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis," Trump wrote in a social media post.
Since 1996 the United States has been a signatory to the the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which bans all atomic test blasts, whether for military or civilian purposes
It was not immediately clear if Trump was referring to testing nuclear warheads -- something the United States last did in 1992 -- or testing weapons systems capable of carrying atomic warheads.
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