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By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN, Associated Press

VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing , alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests.

Experts say these threats from the world’s two largest nuclear powers put pressure on nonproliferation efforts and endanger global peace and security.

FILE – A mushroom cloud rises from a test blast at the Nevada Test Site on June 24, 1957. (U.S. Energy Department via AP, File)

“Because of other countries’ testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis,” U.S. President Donald Trump said in a post on his Truth Social site at the end of October

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