United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said through his deputy spokesman that “nuclear testing can never be permitted under any circumstances.”

The U.S. President, Donald Trump's announcement that the U.S. would be resuming nuclear weapons testing is yet another confusing and alarming policy

Nearly all of the hard-won treaties that constrained nuclear weapons since the end of the Cold War have been abrogated, says this academic.

President Donald Trump announced the U.S. will restart nuclear weapons tests after a three-decade-long pause, and do so on an “equal basis” with other countries—namely Russia and China—who are carrying out such testing programs. In a post made on Truth Social, shortly before his face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump said: “Because of other countries' testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.” The post noted that “this process will begin immediately,” although the president didn’t mention what types of nuclear weapons tests would be carried out. The president noted that Russia has the second largest number of nuclear warheads, and China is “a distant third, but will be even within 5 years,” signaling that the “equal basis” comment was directed at these two countries. How many nuclear warheads do the U.S., Russia and China have? According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's annual yearbook published…