
Trump stuns with call to resume nuclear tests — why now, and what it could mean
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President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing immediately, matching Russia and China efforts. Military experts and lawmakers react to major policy shift.
Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
"They seem to all be nuclear testing," Trump later told reporters on Air Force One. "We don’t do testing — we halted it years ago. But with others doing testing, it’s appropriate that we do also."
It’s unclear exactly what Trump meant, since no country has conducted a known nuclear test since North Korea in 2017. The last known tests for China and Russia date back to the 1990s, when Russia was still the Soviet Union.
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