Trump says US will restart nuclear weapons testing 

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President Donald Trump says helium has instructed the Pentagon to instantly commencement investigating atomic weapons, citing a request to lucifer “other countries [sic] investigating programs.”

Trump’s post connected Truth Social included precise fewer details connected the quality of the tests, but says the “process volition statesman immediately.” It’s not wide whether Trump is referring to explosive tests of atomic warheads oregon tests of systems susceptible of delivering them.

The comments — arriving just before his anticipated gathering with China’s Xi Jinping, which resulted successful reduced tariffs connected Chinese imports —  look to upend decades of American policy. The past US atomic trial was successful 1992, earlier George HW Bush enacted a moratorium astatine the extremity of the Cold War.

Trump’s station was riddled with errors: Russia, not the US, has the world’s largest atomic stockpile, and nary country, with the objection of North Korea, is confirmed to person tested atomic weapons since the 1990s, according to the UN. The US is besides a signatory to the planetary pact banning atomic weapons tests, though has not ratified it.