US President Donald Trump has said he had ordered the Pentagon to start nuclear weapons testing on a level with China and Russia, just minutes before opening a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Any future U.S. test likely would take place in Nevada at the testing sites, but a lot of work likely would need to go into the sites to prepare them given it’s been over 30 years since the l...

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe.

This apparently significant change in US policy comes days after the US president denounced Russia for testing a nuclear-powered missile.

BUSAN, South Korea: US President Donald Trump on Thursday (Oct 30) ordered the US military to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons, for the first time in 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President

President Trump explained the order by saying other, unnamed nations were testing their own nuclear weapons, even though no country has tested since 2017.

New submitter hadleyburg writes: President Trump has directed the Department of War to restart nuclear weapons testing. The directive appears to be a counter measure to rival nations catching up with the US. The last US nuclear test was an underground test, on September 23, 1992, in Nevada....

Trump ordered the U.S. military to resume nuclear weapons testing. Why were they stopped and why restart now? What to know.

It’s unclear what kinds of tests he ordered and how Nevada — home of the nation’s nuclear stockpile — would be affected.

President Donald Trump shocked the world by announcing on social media that he had asked the US military to "start testing our Nuclear Weapons", saying the United States could not fall behind Russia and China.