Trump orders nuclear weapons tests
The US president has said he was left with “no choice” in light of Russian and Chinese arsenals | US President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing, citing strategic competition with Russia and China. Trump made the announcement ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday. [...] The US halted nuclear tests in 1992 under a Congress-mandated moratorium. Members of Trump’s cabinet reportedly discussed reversing the moratorium during his first term after the US accused China and Russia of secretly conducting an underground low-yield nuclear tests – a claim Beijing and Moscow denied. ● According to a recent estimate by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the US has 5,177 nuclear warheads, Russia has 5,459, and China is projected to reach 1,500 by 2035.
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