US President Donald Trump stated that Pakistan is among the nations actively conducting nuclear tests, describing it as part of a broader global trend
among other states that necessitates the US resuming its own nuclear tests. Trump, in '60 Minutes' interview with CBS News on Sunday, said that several countries, including Russia, China, North Korea and Pakistan are conducting nuclear tests, while the US remains the only nation that does not. "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 stated. "We're going to test because they test and others test. And certainly North Korea's been testing. Pakistan's been testing," he added.
BREAKING🚨: US President Donald Trump says “Pakistan’s been testing nuclear weapons.”
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These remarks were made when the US President was asked about his decision of 'detonating nuclear weapons' after more than 30 years following Russia's recent trials of advanced nuclear-capable systems, including a Poseidon underwater drone.
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"You have to see how they work. The reason I'm saying testing is because Russia announced that 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 stated during the interview.
"We're going to test nuclear weapons like other countries do," he added.
Trump also claimed that the US possesses "more nuclear weapons than any other country," adding that he had discussed denuclearisation with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
"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 nuclear weapons testing, citing Russia's recent trials of advanced nuclear-capable systems, marking a major escalation between the two nuclear powers.
These remarks come months after Operation Sindoor -- a defensive operation launched by the Indian Armed Forces on May 7 in response to the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam. The strikes, targetting terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), triggered four days of intense clashes that ended with an understanding on halting military actions on May 10 following Islamabad's request.
