Russia Considers ‘Full-Scale’ Nuclear Weapons Tests After Trump’s Comments

by Dave DeCamp 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has directed his top officials to submit proposals on the possibility of resuming what his defense minister called “full-scale” nuclear weapons tests in response to President Trump’s order for the US military to conduct nuclear tests.

It was unclear from Trump’s initial order, which he gave in a post on Truth Social, if he was referring to testing nuclear-capable weapons or actually resuming nuclear explosions, which US Energy Secretary Chris Wright later said was not on the table, at least for now.

Nevertheless, Trump’s order set off alarm bells in Moscow and around the world about the prospect of the US detonating nuclear weapons, something the US, Russia, and every other nuclear-armed power, besides North Korea, haven’t done since the 1990s…

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