President Donald Trump said the U.S. would accelerate its nuclear weapons testing, after Russia announced trials of a nuclear-powered underwater drone and nuclear-capable cruise 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

Trump orders U.S. nuclear weapons testing amid rising tensions with Russia and China, following Putin's recent underwater drone test.

US President Donald Trump, ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday (Oct 30), said he has instructed the Department of Defense to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons on an "equal basis" with

Oct. 29 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the United States would "immediately" begin testing its nuclear weapons arsenal.

MOSCOW (Oct 29): Russia has successfully tested a nuclear-capable, nuclear-powered underwater drone, President Vladimir Putin said today, defying US President Donald Trump’s warnings with Moscow’s second test of a new nuclear weapons system in just a few days. Putin on Sunday oversaw a test of another advanced nuclear-capable weapon — the Burevestnik cruise missile, whichRead More

President Donald Trump appeared to suggest the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades, saying it would be on an “equal basis” with Russia and China. There was no indication the U.S. would start detonating warheads, but the president offered few details about what…

The testing is necessary to keep pace with weapons programmes in China and Russia, according to Trump.

Just minutes before he was scheduled to meet President Xi Jinping of China, the president threatened on social media to resume nuclear testing for the first time in 33 years.

President Trump posted on social media that he has instructed the Department of War to start testing nuclear weapons “immediately.”

The test comes days after President Vladimir V. Putin announced the previous trial of another Russian nuclear weapon.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia had tested a Poseidon nuclear-capable super torpedo and that it had been a great success.

Trump orders immediate resumption of U.S. nuclear weapons testing to match global programs, citing Russia and China's advancing capabilities in major policy shift.

The president’s remarks were made shortly before his face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea.

President Vladimir Putin said the super torpedo, Poseidon, could not be intercepted.

Putin on Sunday oversaw a test of another advanced nuclear-capable weapon - the Burevestnik cruise missile, which he said had an 'unlimited range'. Trump called that exercise not 'appropriate'.

Russia had tested a new nuclear-capable, nuclear-powered long-range remote torpedo, President Vladimir Putin said, a weapon that some experts have dubbed a "doomsday machine."