Key Points and Summary - President Trump’s Oct. 29, 2025 call to resume U.S. nuclear testing threatens a 30-year global pause and underscores a wider arms-control breakdown. -With INF and Open Skies ...

The testing of nuclear weapons is suddenly a major topic of discussion after being largely dormant for three decades. Last week, Russia tested a nuclear-powered missile, but did not detonate an actual ...

Resuming full testing of nuclear weapons — as President Donald Trump called for last week — would be unnecessary, costly, undermine nonproliferation efforts, and empower the nation’s adversaries to ...

President Trump's comments about restarting weapons tests are not likely to lead to mushroom-cloud explosions over the New Mexico desert or seismic shaking underground in Nevada, according to the ...

Prior to his meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea on October 30, United States President Donald Trump wrote that he has ordered the U.S. military to resume nuclear testing ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright revealed the U.S. will not be testing nuclear explosions, putting to rest questions over whether the Trump administration would reverse a decades-old taboo. Testing will ...

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 ...

Donald Trump’s command for the United States to resume nuclear weapons testing will not include explosive tests, for now, according to Energy Secretary Chris Wright. Wright, whose agency oversees the ...

In 1954, the United States detonated Castle Bravo at Bikini Atoll expecting a far smaller blast, but the weapon exploded with a 15-megaton yield and became the largest nuclear test in U.S. history.

Donald Trump has trampled on another taboo, and it's a good thing. The president said in a Truth Social post that the United States will begin "immediately" testing our "Nuclear Weapons" on "an equal ...

U.S. President Donald Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping. China's nuclear expansion is on a trajectory to soon rival America's arsenal, the authors of this op-ed write. (AP/Shutterstock) In ...