On November 2, US President Donald Trump insisted that Russia, China, and Pakistan were testing nuclear weapons. In an interview to CBS' 60 Minutes, Trump said these tests were the reason the US was resuming the testing of nuclear weapons.

Trump's statement fanned another urban legend -- that Pakistan had tested nuclear weapons between April and May, amid tensions between India. The Afghanistan-Pakistan region was hit by at least four earthquakes between April 30 and May 12. These quakes had an intensity of between 4.0 and 4.7, consistent with readings produced by Pakistan's Chagai-1 and Chagai-2 nuclear tests on May 28 and May 30, 1998.

Since the overt nuclearisation of the subcontinent in 1998, Pakistan has used its nuclear weapons as a shield to protect its use of terrorism as an

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