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Russia and the US threatened to resume nuclear testing after several decades. Here is why it matters
VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests. Experts say these threats from the world’s two largest nuclear ...
President Donald Trump’s announcement this month that the United States would restart nuclear weapons testing on an “equal basis” with other nations — alluding to unverified claims that Moscow and Beijing are conducting secret tests and suggesting ...
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In the midst of trading promises with both allies and adversaries during his recent tour of Asia, U.S. President Donald Trump dampened the positive mood with an ominous pronouncement. “Because of other countries testing programs,” Trump wrote in a ...
Nuclear weapons tests were once a regular occurrence, but most countries haven’t tested in decades, following the adoption of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 1996. Now, that moratorium might be nearing an end. Politicians, including U.S ...
America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a shallow concavity in the sand, and killed no one that we ...
Discussing nuclear weapons earlier this month, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said the nation “is committed to peaceful development, follows a policy of ‘no first use’ of nuclear weapons and a nuclear strategy that focuses on self ...
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s recent announcement that the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons has alarmed some nuclear-arms experts. It shouldn’t. President Trump had already announced earlier this year that a resumption of testing “on an ...
The only remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, NewSTART, expires on February 5, 2026. Russia withdrew from NewSTART in 2023, but has adhered to the numerical limits of deployed nuclear weapons,