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How China's surprise ICBM test alarmed US Pacific ally

China has been accused of "misleading" New Zealand—a United States security ally in the South Pacific—regarding its test of an unarmed but nuclear-capable long-range missile in 2024. In a statement to ...
AOL

The US will launch an ICBM across the Pacific — and no, it has nothing to do with Trump's new nuclear testing plans

The US Air Force is conducting a routine test of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. The last Minuteman III test was in May. It flew over the Pacific toward a target in the Marshall ...
Al-Monitor

Explainer-Nuclear testing: Why did it stop, why test and who has nuclear weapons?

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese ...
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The nuclear test that used the ocean itself as a weapon

In 1955, the US Navy detonated a nuclear warhead deep beneath the Pacific Ocean during Operation Wigwam. The test focused on ...
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Trump says U.S. will immediately 'start testing' nuclear weapons. Here's what to know.

A subsurface atomic test near Yucca Flats, Nev., in March 1955. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) In what would be a major shift in a decades-old American policy against global nuclear ...
The Diplomat

A Return to Nuclear Testing Looks Inevitable. Here’s How to Manage It.

Prior to his meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea on October 30, United States President Donald Trump wrote that he has ordered the U.S. military to resume nuclear testing ...
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Trump says he wants to resume nuclear testing. Here's what that would mean

President Trump said on Thursday that the U.S. would begin testing nuclear weapons again for the first time in decades. “We’ve halted many years ago, but with others doing testing I think it’s ...
Los Angeles Times

Trump’s comments on nuclear testing upend decades of U.S. policy. Here’s what to know about it

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Trump says U.S. will restart nuclear testing, reversing decades of policy since the last test in 1992. Russia, ...
NBC New York

Which countries have nuclear weapons and how are they tested? What to know

President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...
The New York Times

Testing America’s Nuclear Bombs: What to Know

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe. By William J. Broad President ...