The president of United States, Donald Trumpinstructed the War Department to start nuclear tests “on equal terms” with other countries, marking a historic turn in atomic deterrence policy.
Through your network Truth Socialthe president assured that the country has “more nuclear weapons than any other” and that his administration completed a “total renovation” of the arsenal during his first term.
“Due to other countries’ testing programs, I have instructed the War Department to begin testing our nuclear weapons. That process will begin immediately,” he wrote.
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Although it did not specify whether these were real detonations or subcritical experiments, the order raises international concern over the possibility that Washington reopen testing site Nevadawhere more than a thousand explosions were carried out between [1945 y 1992.
Escalation between nuclear powers
The directive comes in a context of growing tension with Russia. Just hours before, Vladimir Putin announced the test of Poseidon underwater droneequipped with a nuclear unit and capable, according to Moscowto move at great depths without being detected. He Kremlin had also recently celebrated the success of the nuclear-powered cruise missile Burevestnikof “unlimited scope.”
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Trump called the Russian president’s demonstrations “inappropriate” and urged him to “end the war in Ukraine“, but his new order to the Pentagon suggests that Washington will choose to respond from the ground of strategic parity, reactivating nuclear tests, a dormant competition since the Cold war.
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