US President Donald Trump has claimed that Pakistan is among several countries conducting nuclear tests, arguing that such activities by other nations justify the United States resuming its own testing
program.
In an interview with CBS News’s 60 Minutes on Sunday, Trump said countries including Russia, China, North Korea, and Pakistan are carrying out nuclear tests, while the US remains the only major power refraining from doing so.
“Russia’s testing and China’s testing, but they don’t talk about it. We’re an open society. We’re different. We talk about it. We have to talk about it because otherwise you people are going to report. They don’t have reporters that are going to be writing about it,” Trump said.
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“We’re going to test because they test and others test. And certainly North Korea’s been testing. Pakistan’s been testing,” he added.
Trump made the remarks while responding to a question about his decision to resume nuclear detonations after more than three decades, following reports of Russia testing advanced nuclear-capable systems, including the Poseidon underwater drone.
“You have to see how they work. The reason I’m saying testing is that Russia announced they were going to be doing a test. If you notice, North Korea is testing constantly. Other countries are testing. We’re the only country that doesn’t test. And I don’t want to be the only country that doesn’t test,” Trump said during the interview.
“We’re going to test nuclear weapons like other countries do,” he added.
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“We have enough nuclear weapons to blow up the world 150 times,” Trump said. “Russia has a lot of nuclear weapons and China will have a lot. They have some. They have quite a bit.”
Earlier on Thursday, Trump announced the immediate resumption of US nuclear weapons testing, citing Russia’s recent trials of advanced nuclear-capable systems — a move seen as a significant escalation between the two nuclear powers.
Before boarding Air Force One, Trump said that while denuclearisation would be a “tremendous thing,” restarting American nuclear testing after more than three decades was “appropriate.”
“They seem to all be nuclear testing,” Trump told reporters, referring to Russia and China.
“We have more nuclear weapons than anybody. We don’t do testing… but with others doing testing, I think it’s appropriate that we do also,” he added.
He said preparations for the tests were already in place but did not specify the timing or location. When asked whether renewed testing could make the global nuclear landscape more volatile, Trump replied, “I think we have it pretty well locked up.”
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law ending the already defunct plutonium disposal agreement with the United States, which was intended to limit the production of weapons-grade nuclear material. The 2000 pact required both countries to dispose of 34 tonnes of plutonium no longer needed for military use.
