US President Donald Trump has alleged that Pakistan, China, Russia, and North Korea are carrying out covert nuclear weapons tests. In a recent interview, Trump justified his directive for the United States to resume nuclear weapons testing after a 33-year moratorium, citing that other countries are not transparent about their activities. Advertisement

The claims come at a time of heightened vigilance for India, which faces Pakistan and China as nuclear-armed rivals on its borders. Trump claimed that countries possessing nuclear warheads have been conducting tests—they just don't talk about it.

He said that monitoring of nuclear tests can be circumvented, stating in an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes, "They (the countries with nuclear weapons) don't go and tell you about it... They test

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