President Donald Trump speaks at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 21, 2025. AFP via Getty Images
Donald Trump has trampled on another taboo, and it’s a good thing.
The president said in a Truth Social post that the United States will begin “immediately” testing our “Nuclear Weapons” on “an equal basis” with Russia and China.
It’s not clear what this means exactly; Trump could be referring to the delivery systems that carry nuclear weapons, or the weapons themselves.
If it is the latter, as most news accounts assume, it will represent an advance for the US nuclear deterrent and a victory of common sense over superstition.
The United States conducted more than a thousand explosive nuclear tests during the Cold War, but gave up the practice in 1992.
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