In response to escalation from Russia and China, President Donald Trump revealed on Wednesday that he had ordered the Department of War to "immediately" begin testing nuclear weapons.
Trump made the announcement in a post to his Truth Social account just before he was scheduled to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, signaling an aggressive stance in the face of rising tensions with the eastern powers.
As reported by Just the News:
The U.S. largely stopped full-scale nuclear testing in the 1990s, with the last underground test at the Nevada Test Site in 1992.
Trump ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear testing immediately.
'Because of other countries' testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis,' the president wrote in a social media post on Wednesday. 'That process will begin immediately.'
The U.S. has scaled back nuclear testing significantly over the last 30-plus years, but finds itself facing the prospect of falling behind Russia and China on the global stage.
President George H.W. Bush began a unilateral testing ban in 1992. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1996. Since then, the U.S. has conducted subcritical experiments to maintain the safety and reliability of the world's largest nuclear stockpile, according to the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.
"Speak softly and carry a big stick," and all that, so to speak?
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