File photograph of a U.S. LGM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic rocket wrong a silo astir 60 miles from Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed the Pentagon to restart atomic weapons investigating "on an adjacent basis," citing investigating programs by different countries.
In a Truth Social post, Trump wrote: "Because of different countries investigating programs, I person instructed the Department of War to commencement investigating our Nuclear Weapons connected an adjacent basis. That process volition statesman immediately."
It was not instantly wide what Trump meant by "equal basis." The U.S. has not conducted a unrecorded atomic weapons trial since 1992, erstwhile then-President George H.W. Bush imposed a unilateral investigating moratorium.
In 1996, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed by then-President Bill Clinton.
Trump besides claimed successful his Truth Social station that the U.S. has the world's largest atomic arsenal, adding that Russia and China would lucifer its atomic limb stockpile wrong 5 years — a connection contradicted by autarkic data.
According to estimates by the Arms Control Association, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and the Federation of American Scientists, Russia possesses the astir atomic weapons successful the world.
Russia has an estimated 5,459 atomic weapons successful 2025, compared to the U.S.' 5,177 and China's 600.
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