Amid talk of the United States potentially resuming testing of its nuclear weapons, President Donald Trump pointed out that it was needed because many countries such as China, Russia, North Korea, and Pakistan are conducting nuclear tests, and it is “appropriate that the US do the same”.
in conversation with CBS News“The Russia test and the China test, but they don’t talk about it. We’re an open society. We’re separate. We talk about it. We have to talk about it because otherwise you guys are going to report. They don’t have reporters who can write about it,” Trump said.
He said, “We are going to test as they test and others test. And of course North Korea is testing. Pakistan is testing.”
Trump alleged that the US “essentially doesn’t know” where these “powerful” countries testing nuclear weapons are; Although it is claimed that testing is being done. He noted, “They – they test in an underground way – where people don’t know what’s really going on with the testing. You feel a little bit of a shudder. They test and we don’t test. We have to test.”
Trump said, “You have to see how they operate. I say testing because Russia has announced that they are going to test. If you notice, North Korea is constantly testing. Other countries are testing. We’re the only country that doesn’t test. And I don’t want to be the only country that doesn’t test.” He revealed that the US has “more nuclear weapons than any other country,” and said that he had spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping about nuclear disarmament.
Trump said, “We have enough nuclear weapons to blow up the world 150 times. Russia has a lot of nuclear weapons, and China will have a lot. They have some. They have a lot.”
‘These are not nuclear explosions’
Meanwhile, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright indicated that US nuclear-weapons testing President Donald Trump has been trying to stop actual weapons tests for some time.
in conversation with Fox News’ “I think the tests we’re talking about right now are systems tests. These are not nuclear explosions. These are what we call non-critical explosions,” Duffy said at The Sunday Briefing. These tests, he said, “stress all the other parts of the nuclear weapon to make sure that they provide the proper geometry and that they produce a nuclear explosion.”
The United States has not conducted a nuclear weapon detonation test since 1992, when former President George H.W.
