President Donald Trump reiterated Friday that he wants testing of US nuclear weapons but again failed to clarify whether he meant live explosions in a directive that has provoked global tension, as well as some confusion.

Asked whether he meant conducting explosive tests, Trump told reporters on Air Force One, including from AFP: “I am not going to say.”

“You’ll find out very soon, but we’re going to do some testing, yeah, and other countries do it. If they’re going to do it, we’re going do it,” he said on his way for a weekend at his golf resort in Florida.

No country other than North Korea has conducted an explosive nuclear weapon test for decades. Russia and China have not carried out such tests since the 1990s and the last US one was in 1992.

The 79-year-old Republican first made h

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