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 ...

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 ...

Senior Russian officials on Nov. 11 said they were still waiting for a White House explanation about what President Donald Trump meant he when said he had instructed the Pentagon to resume nuclear ...

On Oct. 30, 2025, President Donald Trump ordered the United States to resume nuclear weapons testing for the first time since the early 1990s, arguing the move was necessary to keep pace with Russia ...

The United States has not conducted a nuclear weapons test since 1992, and thus there was widespread surprise when President Trump indicated, shortly before a meeting with China’s Xi Jinping, that he ...

Tensions are growing in east Asia. The threat of a Chinese attack on Taiwan persists and, in recent weeks, North Korea has been testing its long-range missile capabilities. Russia’s reorientation of ...

Eighty eminent and expert members of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) have denounced President Trump’s threatened return to nuclear testing. The ...

President Trump’s call to resume nuclear tests was muddied this week when Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the United States would not resume explosive testing, which was last conducted in the 1990s ...

President Donald Trump has ordered preparations to resume U.S. nuclear weapons testing, citing alleged Russian and Chinese violations. Moscow and Beijing deny conducting explosive nuclear tests but ...

A desert site about 65 miles north of Las Vegas had been selected for nuclear weapons testing. It was 1953 and 11 atomic bomb detonations took place here between March and June as part of Operation ...