At 89 seconds from midnight according to the doomsday clock and after 33 years of a moratorium on nuclear testing, the United States President, Donald Trump , announced that the U.S. would be resuming nuclear weapons testing . This adds yet another confusing and alarming policy to a growing assortment of such policies under Mr. Trump’s belt.

The timing of the announcement is not coincidental. Mr. Trump’s post, on Truth Social, came after Russia announced the successful test of a ‘nuclear-capable cruise missile’. It also came the same day as Mr. Trump’s meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping. Given the current state of the international order, the implications of this move are likely to be widespread.

Speculation about the beginning of another arms race has already begun and the st

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