There will be NO Trump Physical US Nuclear Test’s……

Trump did not include many details in his announcement, which he made on a Truth Social post. Trump wrote that the process would begin immediately and was in response to other countries’ testing programs.

While Trump said he’d directed the Defense Department to resume nuclear tests, it is the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration that designs and manages the nation’s nuclear arsenal.

The NNSA operates the Nevada Test Site, a reservation about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, where the United States last conducted a nuclear test explosion deep under Rainier Mesa in September 1992. After that, President George H.W. Bush implemented a moratorium on such exercises at the conclusion of the Cold War.

Trump’s announcement prompted confusion and alarm from experts who argued that physical testing is outdated and would add momentum to an arms race it aims to counter. The news came after Russia said it had successfully tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile, the Burevestnik, and a large torpedo, the Poseidon, which are nuclear-capable weapons systems. Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, has abstained from carrying out a nuclear detonation.

Trump’s move relies on an argument popular within the administration that testing is necessary to combat a rising proliferation threat from places such as Russia, China and North Korea, all of which have modernized their systems in recent years….

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