Trump Orders Restart Of Nuclear Weapons Testing

 

It appears "Donald the dove" wants to see some big 'splosions:

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Trump made the surprise announcement on Truth Social while he was aboard his Marine One helicopter flying to meet Xi for a trade negotiating session in Busan, South Korea. He said he was instructing the Pentagon to test the U.S. nuclear arsenal on an “equal basis” with other nuclear powers.

“Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately,” Trump posted.

“Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years.” [snip]

The reaction to Trump’s announcement on testing was swift. Representative Dina Titus, a Democrat from Nevada, said on X: “I’ll be introducing legislation to put a stop to this.”

Daryl Kimball, director of the Arms Control Association, said it would take the United States at least 36 months to resume contained nuclear tests underground at the former test site in Nevada.

“Trump is misinformed and out of touch. The U.S. has no technical, military, or political reason to resume nuclear explosive testing for the first time since 1992,” Kimball said on X.

He added Trump’s announcement could “trigger a chain reaction of nuclear testing by U.S. adversaries, and blow apart the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.”

Apart from providing technical data, a U.S. test would be seen in Russia and China as a deliberate assertion of U.S. strategic power. Putin has repeatedly said that Russia will test if the United States does.  [snip]

The United States last tested a nuclear weapon in 1992...

In his own tiny, demented mind, the Malignant Fascist believes he's a great negotiator, but in reality he's the guy at the poker table who can't spot the sucker (because it's him).  Having an unsophisticated simpleton like the MF toying with the delicate balance between the nuclear powers, while signaling a move away from the disarmament pillar of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, is madness.  Having advisors who are either advocating this or not discouraging it speaks to the chaotic nature of the MF's regime and to its extremism.  The treaty was ratified by the Senate decades ago;  lets see if the current crop of gnomes and eunuchs in the MAGAt Republican cult will roll over or stand up for some semblance of sanity.