prompted a lot of head scratching in the arms control community with his assertion on the CBS program 60 Minutes that both Russia and China were conducting underground tests of nuclear weapons and therefore he was ordering the Pentagon to begin testing our weapons “on an equal basis.”

Most experts noted that Russia and China ended underground tests in the 1990s, and North Korea’s last test was in 2017. But citing a post on X by CIA director — in which he said Trump was “right” and referenced a 2020 Wall Street Journal story about possible “small nuclear tests” by China — (R-AR) said Ratcliffe told him that Russia and China were not adhering to the letter of the voluntary nuclear testing moratorium.

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