US treasury secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday defended President Donald Trump’s decision to immediately resume nuclear weapons testing for the first time in 33 years, saying it was crucial to help America "certainly catch up" with China. "The US is lagging China in nuclear power development, but we can certainly catch up," Bessent said during an interview on Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria. "It’s all hands on deck for nuclear power," he added. Bessent’s remarks came hours after Trump ordered the Pentagon to immediately restart nuclear weapons testing, ending a moratorium that had been in place since 1992. The announcement was made minutes before Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea, and was widely seen as a show of strength ahead of high-stakes tr

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