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

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

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

President Donald Trump declined to say Friday whether he plans to resume underground nuclear detonation tests, as he had seemed to suggest in a social media post this week that raised concerns the U.S. would begin testing nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades. The president told reporters…