New Delhi : US President Donald Trump has announced that his administration will resume nuclear weapons testing, the first since September 1992, when the US conducted its last detonation at the Nevada Test Site.

Trump made the announcement on Tuesday through a post on Truth Social , directing the Department of War to immediately begin testing nuclear weapons. He claimed the move was necessary to ensure that America acts “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, both of whom he named in the post.

The decision ends an over three – decade pause on testing by the US, when the country self-imposed a halt on nuclear explosions. In 1996, four years after its last test, the US signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) — which bans all nuclear explosions for bot

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