President Donald Trump said he has instructed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to resume testing of America’s nuclear weapons—breaking a 33-year pause.
The president’s announcement on Truth Social was posted less than an hour before his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, 72, in Busan, South Korea—the latest stop on Trump’s Asia tour.
China hasn’t tested a nuclear weapon since 1996, but has been rapidly increasing its stockpile, which in March stood at about 600 warheads, according to the Federation of American Scientists.
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