U.S. President Donald Trump, ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, said he has instructed the Department of Defence to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons on an "equal basis" with other nuclear powers, something the U.S. has not done in 33 years.

"Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately," Trump said on his social media platform, Truth Social, ahead of the meeting with Xi in South Korea.

"Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years," Trump noted.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia had successfully tested a Poseidon nuclear-powered super torpedo that mili

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