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Why Does Donald Trump Want to Test Nuclear Weapons Again?

The Trump administration’s renewed focus on nuclear issues after decades of neglect is welcome. But America is not prepared for a new nuclear test. President Donald Trump now wants the United States ...
Forbes

Europe Joins U.S. In Arming For Russian Nuclear Strikes In Space

As Russia threatens atomic attacks on Ukraine and its Western allies, and prototypes a nuclear-armed spacecraft, space powers across Europe are racing to defend against nuclear strikes in orbit.
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Nuclear weapons tests: The physics that makes them so hard to hide

Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the ...
The New York Times

New Weapons Testing Won’t Include Nuclear Explosions, Energy Secretary Says

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the testing ordered up in a surprise announcement by President Trump last week would focus on “the other parts” of nuclear weaponry. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs The ...
The Diplomat

A Return to Nuclear Testing Looks Inevitable. Here’s How to Manage It.

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 ...
AOL

Nuclear missile will test launch overnight in California, Space Force says

The U.S. military will launch an unarmed nuclear missile across the Pacific Ocean overnight Nov. 4, in a pre-planned firing that marks the Pentagon's first weapons test since President Donald Trump ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

How the United States achieved its de facto nuclear test ban—and how to preserve it

President Donald Trump is off on another ill-informed ranting spree, this time claiming that he has ordered the military to resume nuclear testing. In his interview with 60 Minutes last week, he ...