“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity.” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Nov 04, 2025

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Observers in 1955 watched an atomic nuclear blast. Fallout from 1950s nuclear bomb tests exposed many to radioactive iodine and heightened cancer risk.Credit…Associated Press

LLAW’s All Things Nuclear Review Today . . .

From the New York Times: Trump has doubled down on the concept that he has ordered a resumption of explosive nuclear testing — which the United States has refrained from for 33 year (Story Below)

This is exactly what I thought was going on. His administration was trying to protect his thoughtless idea from his own ignorance and lies based on misinterpreting Russia’s testing about restarting Nuclear Testing, hoping to cover the foot he put in his own mouth. But his own Secretary of Energy, who was against Trump’s decision, tried to modify what “nuclear testing” meant. It didn’t work, and Trump has jeopardized all of us once again unless he is somehow convinced — or forced — to change his warped mind.

All I can say today that I’ve not already said yesterday is that to protect ourselves and the rest of the world from him for all kinds of serious reasons, we must demand his removal from office. Congress, Judicial, and Defense can force him out. If they don’t, we have little or no hope . . . ~llaw

Today’s Feature Story from LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY is from category. . .

Nuclear Power

NEWS

News Analysis

Trump Doubles Down on Nuclear Tests. His Energy Secretary Differs.

President Trump and one of his top cabinet officials are sending mixed messages on how the U.S. government is handling the most destructive weapons in the world.

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Observers in 1955 watched an atomic nuclear blast. Fallout from 1950s nuclear bomb tests exposed many to radioactive iodine and heightened cancer risk.Credit…Associated Press

By David E. Sanger and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

David E. Sanger and Zolan Kanno-Youngs are White House correspondents, reporting from Washington.

Nov. 3, 2025

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President Trump has often thrived on vagueness, demonstrating a deep unwillingness to be pinned down on specifics and forgo maximum leeway in future actions.

But one area where precision matters, a lot, is when presidents talk about their plans for America’s nuclear weapons. And this weekend, the president and his energy secretary, who oversees the development and maintenance of the nuclear stockpile, contradicted each other on the critical question of whether the United States is about to break the three-decade taboo on explosive testing of nuclear weapons.

In short, Mr. Trump has doubled down on the concept that he has ordered a resumption of explosive nuclear testing — which the United States has refrained from for 33 years — to match what he contends were secret nuclear underground detonations, presumably by Russia, China, and other nuclear-armed states. But that claim has been rejected by many nuclear experts and Mr. Trump’s own nominee to lead the U.S. Strategic Command, which is responsible for America’s ground-based, undersea and bomber-launched nuclear weapons.

“They test way underground where people don’t know exactly what’s happening with the test,” Mr. Trump said in an interview that was recorded on Friday with CBS’s “60 Minutes.” “You feel a little bit of a vibration. They test, and we don’t test. We have to test.” Mr. Trump pointed to Russia, China and North Korea and others as conducting unspecified tests.

On Sunday, Chris Wright, Mr. Trump’s energy secretary, appeared to contradict Mr. Trump when he indicated the United States has no intention of conducting new explosive tests, and would simply continue its regular testing of nuclear components and systems to ensure they are working properly.

“These will be nonnuclear explosions,” Mr. Wright said on “The Sunday Briefing” on Fox News. “These are just developing sophisticated systems so that our replacement nuclear weapons are even better than the ones they were before.”

The mixed messages have amounted to an extraordinary situation in which the president, who is followed everywhere by an aide carrying the “nuclear football” with nuclear codes and options, cannot get on the same page with one of his top cabinet officials on how the U.S. government is handling the most destructive weapons in the world.

Detonation tests of nuclear warheads were a frequent feature of the Cold War, first in aboveground tests in the 1950s and ’60s, and then in underground explosions. But they are no longer commonplace and all the major superpowers have largely abided by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, even though it has never been formally ratified and put into force.

The United States has not conducted a nuclear test since 1992, and with a few exceptions — such as India and Pakistan in 1998 — others have abided by the test ban too.

But Mr. Trump may have been referring to an ongoing, if still classified, argument within the intelligence agencies and national laboratories about whether China and Russia have conducted what amount to small tests. By some interpretations, such tests have involved self-sustaining nuclear reactions — known in the nuclear world as “critical” tests. The evidence is vague, and experts disagree on the quality of the evidence.

Some have argued the United States should match those tests.

John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, posted on social media that Mr. Trump “was right” in his assertions about Russian and Chinese nuclear testing. Mr. Ratcliffe’s post referred to a 2020 Wall Street Journal article on suspected Chinese nuclear tests on a small scale, and comments from a 2019 speech from the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency that Russia was “probably not adhering to the nuclear testing moratorium” and that Russian testing had created “nuclear yield.”

C.I.A. officials declined to comment on Mr. Ratcliffe’s post.

But Mr. Wright’s reference to “nonnuclear explosions” and “noncritical explosions” appeared to rule out the possibility that the United States was planning to conduct similar tests.

The only nation that has conducted full, explosive nuclear tests in the past quarter-century is North Korea, and its last one was in September 2017.

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TODAY’s LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS

About Today’s Nuclear News and How it Works:

There are 7 categories, including a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcano and caldera activity around the world that also play an important role in the survival of human and other life.

The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). If there was no news from a Category today, the Category will not appear. The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

1. All Things Nuclear
2. Nuclear Power
3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
4. Nuclear War Threats
5. Nuclear War
6. Yellowstone Caldera
7. IAEA News (Friday’s only)

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.

Nuclear World News for Tuesday, (11/04/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Resumed U.S. Nuclear Testing? Unnecessary and Unwise | FSI – Stanford University

Stanford University

They added that the program had helped them understand things about nuclear explosions that were not well understood solely with testing. Resumed …

Kroenig in Fox News on nuclear tests – Atlantic Council

Atlantic Council

… about President Trump’s call to resume nuclear testing. He discussed the concerns that Russia and China are conducting nuclear tests in an …

Rick Perry’s Nuclear Ambitions Begin With Gas Power – WSJ

The Wall Street Journal

The industry is abuzz about a potential nuclear … Most, but not all, U.S. nuclear plants sit next to large bodies of water for cooling.

Nuclear Power

NEWS

US nuclear weapons testing can forever scar a nation. Just ask the Marshall Islands | CNN

CNN

… nuclear device at its Lop Nur site in remote northwestern Xinjiang. It would be the last test by a major nuclear power. Related article.

Trump Doubles Down on Nuclear Tests. His Energy Secretary Differs. – The New York Times

The New York Times

And this weekend, the president and his energy secretary, who oversees the development and maintenance of the nuclear stockpile, contradicted each …

Did Trump just pick a nuclear ‘national champion’? – E&E News by POLITICO

E&E News

The $80 billion deal with Westinghouse is the administration’s latest move to influence the energy sector through equity in private industry.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Agencies to hold Biennial Radiological Emergency Preparedness Exercise at Pa. nuclear facility

WFMZ.com

… nuclear power plant accident and to inform and educate the public about radiological emergency preparedness. Additional information on FEMA’s REP …

Emergency at Kozloduy nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, fire breaks out in safety system

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Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant / Photo MIA.mk. Emergency at Kozloduy nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, fire breaks out in safety system. V.Dr. Prev 1 …

Reimagining US energy independence: How states can harness advanced nuclear power

Deloitte

Action 2c: Strengthen energy security and emergency response frameworks. Nuclear power can maintain electricity supply during most extreme weather …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

What you need to know about recent nuclear exercises and threats – ICAN

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

… nuclear-powered attack submarines. This rise in implicit threats has come at a time when the risk that nuclear weapons will be used again, either …

Expert urges households to do 5 things now to prepare for nuclear war – Daily Express

Daily Express

While no immediate threat is currently present, countries are increasing their militarisation efforts. Last month, the chairman of the UK’s National …

Vladimir Putin’s Nuclear Threats Are Getting Old – The National Interest

The National Interest

For decades, the Kremlin has sought to intimidate foreign powers by threatening to use nuclear weapons. In the current Ukraine war, nuclear threats …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Trump’s Nuclear Threat To Russia, China After Putin’s Burevestnik Launch – YouTube

YouTube

7.8K views · 9 hours ago #trump #nuclear #nuclearweapons … … Russia-Ukraine War: Putin Unleashes ‘Khabarovsk’ Submarine To Carry Nuclear Tsunami- …

Disarmament advocates warn Trump nuclear test threat could spark arms race

People’s World

In a social media post, President Donald Trump ordered the War Department to start testing nuclear weapons again. Experts say that if the U.S. …

What you need to know about recent nuclear exercises and threats – ICAN

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

On 30 October, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on social media that he had ordered the Department of War to “start testing our Nuclear Weapons on …

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“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity.” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Nov 03, 2025

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Trump declines to say whether he plans to resume nuclear tests

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LLAW’s All Things Nuclear Review Today . . .

Now to get back to the predictable “Nuclear World” with a quick escape from the controversial world of “It came from Outer Space”, Potential Alien Invasion, Comets that are not comets, NASA and other secrets, unanswerable questions, and, yes, some lies . . . Whoo! {Wipes Brow}

First off, rushing back to the more comfortable “Nuclear World” today, one would think that Trump would be aware and cognitive enough to not have to figure out how to constantly reconstruct his previous spur-of-the-moment lies in order to save face here and around the world. At the outset of today’s article from AP interviews refers to Trump’s language as “opaque” . . .

The latest example of Trumps constant backtracks is related to “Nuclear Testing” defining the tests as tests that will be “non-critical explosions”, which I suppose means underground explosions only, llolloll!

Just so we all know, the last above ground test, known as the “Divider”, was on September 23, 1992 — over 33 years ago. The last open air, or above ground nuclear bomb test by the U.S. was in 1962 — some 43 years ago. So Trump’s “non-critical explosions” will relate to something we have avoided since Trump was a sixteen year-old teen. So obviously not much has changed in “nuclear testing” during his lifetime, including his new proposal to test with “non-critical explosions”.

So, his “new” and sudden approach to nuclear bomb testing all sounds good and honorable, but in reality it means nothing and has meant nothing for more than half a century. That’s what having to escape from “lies” does for liars — meaning not much!

And he got the idea from Russia because he didn’t know their ‘“missile testing”, etc. was not “nuclear testing”, a country that has likewise not tested nuclear weapons at all since 1990 — even before our own testing moratorium. But Trump probably didn’t know that when he ordered the Pentagon to restart testing nuclear weapons. He flies by the seat of his pants, and that is exceedingly dangerous.

But, don’t forget, the nuclear bomb tests will be “non-critical explosions”, and to Trump at least, that’s okay! . . .~llaw

Today’s Feature Story from LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY is from category. . .

Nuclear Power

NEWS

From the “AP” article: Trump remained opaque on Friday when asked by reporters about whether he intended to resume underground nuclear detonation tests.

“You’ll find out very soon,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday, as he headed to Florida for a weekend stay.

Trump’s testing plans for US nuclear weapons won’t include explosions, energy secretary says

By AAMER MADHANI

Updated 1:22 PM PST, November 2, 2025

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — New tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday.

It was the first clarity from the Trump administration since the president took to social media last week to say he had “instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.”

“I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system tests,” Wright said in an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Briefing.” “These are not nuclear explosions. These are what we call noncritical explosions.”

Wright, whose agency is responsible for testing, added that the planned testing involves “all the other parts of a nuclear weapon to make sure they deliver the appropriate geometry and they set up the nuclear explosion.”

The confusion over Trump’s intention started minutes before he held a critical meeting in South Korea with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump took to his Truth Social platform and appeared to suggest he was preparing to discard a decades-old U.S. prohibition on testing the nation’s nuclear weapons.

Later that day, as he made his way back to Washington, Trump was coy on whether he really meant to say he was ordering the resumption of explosive testing of nuclear weapons — something only North Korea has undertaken this century — or calling for the testing of U.S. systems that could deliver a nuclear weapon, which is far more routine.

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He remained opaque on Friday when asked by reporters about whether he intended to resume underground nuclear detonation tests.

“You’ll find out very soon,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday, as he headed to Florida for a weekend stay.

The U.S. military regularly tests its missiles that are capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, but it has not detonated the weapons since 1992. The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which the U.S. signed but did not ratify, has been observed since its adoption by all countries possessing nuclear weapons, North Korea being the only exception.

Trump announced his plans for nuclear tests after Russia announced it had tested a new atomic-powered and nuclear-capable underwater drone and a new nuclear-powered cruise missile.

Russia responded to Trump’s nuclear testing comments by underscoring that it did not test its nuclear weapons and has abided by a global ban on nuclear testing.

The Kremlin warned though, that if the U.S. resumes testing its weapons, Russia will as well — an intensification that would restart Cold War-era tensions.

AAMER MADHANI

Madhani covers the White House for The Associated Press. He is based in Washington.

TODAY’s LLAW;s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS

About Today’s Nuclear News and How it Works:

There are 7 categories, including a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcano and caldera activity around the world that also play an important role in the survival of human and other life.

The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). If there was no news from a Category today, the Category will not appear. The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

1. All Things Nuclear
2. Nuclear Power
3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
4. Nuclear War Threats
5. Nuclear War
6. Yellowstone Caldera
7. IAEA News (Friday’s only)

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.

Nuclear World News for Monday, (11/03/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Nuclear threats are worsening. Why? | CNN Politics

CNN

All the above demonstrates that there is something to the recent headlines on nuclear weapons and popular movies about a loose nuke poised to …

Box office bombs: What I learned watching 20 nuclear films in a month

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Roughly a quarter of all James Bond movies involve a nuclear MacGuffin, and the bomb’s mere presence raises moral and political questions about the …

‘Have enough nukes to blow world 150 times’: Nuclear testing, Mamdani & more

Times of India

‘Have enough nukes to blow world 150 times’: Nuclear testing, Mamdani & more — 10 things Donald Trump told 60 Minutes … All you need to know about …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Trump’s planned tests are ‘not nuclear explosions’, US energy secretary says – BBC

BBC

The US is not planning to conduct nuclear explosions, Energy Secretary Chris Wright has said, calming global concerns after President Donald Trump …

Trump’s testing plans for US nuclear weapons won’t include explosions, energy secretary says

AP News

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says that new tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear .

Energy secretary reveals how US nuclear tests will work – Fox News

Fox News

Christopher Wright explains that planned U.S. nuclear testing refers to noncritical explosions and weapons systems, not nuclear detonations.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

ECA plans webinar this week on local nuclear emergency planning – ExchangeMonitor

ExchangeMonitor

ExchangeMonitor covers nuclear weapons, waste management, nuclear cleanup, international intelligence as well as carbon capture and storage.

Trump Administration Highlights: Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Guard Deployment in Portland

The New York Times

President Donald Trump walks down the stairs from Air Force One. President Trump had made a surprise announcement about nuclear weapons testing …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Nuclear threats are worsening. Why? | CNN Politics

CNN

Without flinching, Biden said nuclear war. I was surprised by the answer, because the threat-of-all-threats had seemed contained over the recent …

Russia threatens nuclear armageddon – UK Defence Journal

UK Defence Journal

… war with NATO. Russia and Putin do not want this, because without doubt they would lose. So what’s behind the threats? Rather than a sign of …

Drones Spotted Over NATO State Military Base Linked to US Nuclear Weapons – Newsweek

Newsweek

European countries are banding together to work out how to quickly and effectively build up defenses against the most advanced aerial threats, like …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Trump’s testing plans for US nuclear weapons won’t include explosions, energy secretary says

ABC News – The Walt Disney Company

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says that new tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear …

Trump’s planned tests are ‘not nuclear explosions’, US energy secretary says – BBC

BBC

Chris Wright says the tests will be “non-critical explosions”, meaning that Americans would not be seeing mushroom clouds.

Trump’s nuclear weapons tests will involve ‘noncritical explosions,’ not atomic blasts, energy …

Fortune

… War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.” “I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system tests,” Wright said in an …

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“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity.” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Nov 02, 2025

Today’s Image . . .

31/ATLAS Interstellar “Object”

LLAW’s All Things Nuclear Review Today . . .

Since today is Sunday with little new nuclear news and I have spent several hours trying to follow the latest development on the “starship” 3I/ATLAS, apparently from another solar system, hoping that we will soon be allowed to know what it is and its ultimate mission that the both the normal and nuclear world (other than this one), which may turn out to be a significant part of our nuclear worlds’ future.

At this point I don’t believe the “object” and its arrival — for numerous reason(s) — is a hoax. And I see that most of the sarcastic and hard-core “laughers” have disappeared. That is a good thing.

Today’s recently collected 3I/ATLAS Images and videos from YouTube should be available from the single link below . . . (take your pick, watch all, or ignore it all, but it sounds like this unbelievable “object” is not a comet, but a real unknown object from outer space, and its movements around our sun and purposeful travels in our solar system are not a hoax, but much of it has quickly become secret or unavailable to us because it could cause mass panic or expose the leading organizations to misleading mistakes created by erroneous information from scientists and/or their organizations . . . ~llaw

No review . . . but read on . . .

Today’s Feature Story from LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY. . .

No feature story today . . .

So, according to the astronomic scientists’ world, every prediction or guess by astronomers, NASA, et al, have been wrong and forced to “eat crow” about 31/ATLAS even to the previous insistence that it is a comet.

I have been following the most comprehensive and to well-known astronomers and respected theoretical scientist have modified their original thoughts and have actually acknowledged they were wrong in the beginning. As and example I have posted a large link compilation from YouTube representing how this incredible story is unfolding with Michio Kaku, Avi Loeb , and several others . . .

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/-iieeDUhTEQ?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0

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TODAY’s LLAW;s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS

About Today’s Nuclear News and How it Works:

There are 7 categories, including a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcano and caldera activity around the world that also play an important role in the survival of human and other life.

The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). If there was no news from a Category today, the Category will not appear. The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

1. All Things Nuclear
2. Nuclear Power
3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
4. Nuclear War Threats
5. Nuclear War
6. Yellowstone Caldera
7. IAEA News (Friday’s only)

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.

Nuclear World News for Sunday, (11/02/2025)

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Is the world back to testing nuclear weapons? Here are the facts | CBC News

CBC

It banned all nuclear test explosions anywhere in the atmosphere, in the ocean or underground. … Documentaries -The Nature of Things | · LIVE …

Nuclear testing on U.S. soil would be underground: John Bolton – Yahoo News Canada

Yahoo News Canada

… nuclear weapons. In John Bolton’s view, testing is all about safety. “It’s like having 5000 cars in a parking lot,” Bolton said, “they better not …

COMMENTARY: Threat of nuclear war never went away | Jefferson City News Tribune

Jefferson City News Tribune

But as with most things, everyday citizens have more power than they think. Every serious reduction in nuclear threats to date was stimulated by …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

China’s first-ever thorium fuel conversion paves way for 100MW molten-salt reactor

Interesting Engineering

China has announced a major breakthrough in advanced nuclear energy. It has successfully achieved the first-ever conversion of thorium into …

Western States Brace for a Uranium Boom as the Nation Looks to Recharge its Nuclear …

Inside Climate News

After years of federal efforts to revive nuclear power, old mines are stirring again in Wyoming, Texas and Arizona, while new ones line up for …

New York Leans In on Nuclear Energy – Neutron Bytes

Neutron Bytes

New York Leans In on Nuclear Energy Ohio Offers $100M Nuclear Energy Opportunity Initiative NANO Acquires Global First Power from USNC Blue Energy …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

AN HOUR AGO! NUCLEAR PLANT DESTROYED! UKRAINIAN SPECIAL FORCES TURN …

YouTube

… Power Plant in Kurchatov. Moscow is trying to blame Ukraine, but the chaos inside Russia is impossible to hide. A wave of strikes and emergencies …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

The threat of nuclear war never went away | The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times

The threat of nuclear war never went away. Nov. 2, 2025 at 8:00 am … Every serious reduction in nuclear threats to date was stimulated by …

Trump Drops “Nuclear Bombshell” On Truth Social! Overblown Rhetoric Or Real Warning To …

EurAsian Times

… nuclear war with both Russia and China at … nuclear threat will be sufficient to deter or counter the Chinese nuclear threat simultaneously.

Iranian president pledges to rebuild nuclear program – DW

DW

… threats from the United States and Israel. Israel views Iran’s nuclear program as an existential threat and in June, waged a 12-day war against …

Nuclear War

NEWS

The threat of nuclear war never went away | | clevelandbanner.com

Cleveland Daily Banner

At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons.

Iran vows to rebuild nuclear sites ‘stronger than before’ – Le Monde

Le Monde

… attack. Israel launched an unprecedented bombing campaign against Iran in June, kicking off a 12-day war that saw it target nuclear and military …

Russia Pays Big Price For ‘Screwdriver’ Strike On Ukraine? US Hints At Underground Nuclear Test?

YouTube

… nuclear brinkmanship. 0:00 INTRO 1:58 NUCLEAR TESTS MAKE ‘WAR LESS LIKELY’? 3:25 A RUSSIAN MISSILE FORCED TRUMP TO RESTART NUKE TESTS? 6:03 WHAT …

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“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity.” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Nov 01, 2025

Today’s Image . . .

A sub-surface atomic test is seen at the Nevada test site on March 23, 1955.

US Atomic Energy Commission/AP

LLAW’s All Things Nuclear Review Today . . .

“This was a big week to get more afraid about nuclear weapons” ~CNN

~a well-considered and pertinent opening statement from Today’s CNN article relative to Trump’s order to “immediately resume the testing of nuclear weapons.”

The story also, perhaps with sarcasm, that neither Russia nor the US has actually tested nuclear weapons for 30 years. Trump evidently thinks, wrongly as always, that testing missiles, bombers, etc. is the same thing as testing nuclear bombs. And quite oddly the Pentagon has taken offense to the movie “A House of Dynamite” because it infers its incompetency — especially the inability to hit an incoming nuclear-armed missile with a defense missile of our own when it is well-known that the difficulty of “hitting a bullet with a bullet” is a long known practical fact.

But the written Pentagon objection to the movie director and producers is something less than presidential or even something that any department of our government would ordinarily do. Such a complaint about a fictional movie is nothing more than childish insecurity. This speaks to the general weakness of Trump and his administration.

But the point of the difference between testing nuclear warheads versus testing nuclear warhead transportation is the issue that simply went right over Trump’s head and here we are — planning to restart the the problem that no one on planet Earth with a sound mind other than Trump with his demented mind would even consider . . . ~llaw

Today’s Feature Story from LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY is from category. . .

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Why is there so much talk about nuclear weapons this week?

Analysis by

Zachary B. Wolf

5 hr ago

A sub-surface atomic test is seen at the Nevada test site on March 23, 1955.

US Atomic Energy Commission/AP

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This was a big week to get more afraid about nuclear weapons.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the testing of a new nuclear-capable missile.

President Donald Trump responded by calling for the US to resume the testing of nuclear weapons.

Neither country has tested nuclear weapons since the ‘90s, and Russia was quick to clarify that Putin did not announce new nuclear testing. During a trip to Asia, Trump did not meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, who has rejected demands that his country denuclearize.

North Korea is one potential villain in a fictional movie about nuclear war on Netflix, Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite.” It is a “Rashomon”-style thriller about the concept of mutually assured destruction that the filmmakers mean to be a wakeup call for nuclear powers.

The Pentagon felt the need to draw up a memo responding to the film’s depiction of US missile defense systems as inherently flawed – like “trying to hit a bullet with a bullet” is the line repeated throughout the movie.

The film’s writer, Noah Oppenheim, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he welcomes the criticism, since the movie’s intention was “to invite a conversation about an issue which we think is tremendously important and doesn’t get enough attention, which is the fact that we have all these nuclear weapons that exist in the world and that pose a great threat to all mankind.”

‘Claim is preposterous’: Producer pushes back on Pentagon’s criticism of Netflix’s nuclear thriller

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There’s more talk of nuclear weapons to come. A treaty between the US and Russia to limit the size of nuclear arsenals expires in February and there’s currently no movement to extend it.

The Trump administration’s strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities set back its nuclear capabilities, but likely did not completely destroy them.

There’s new tension this week between India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers.

I went back to Matthew Fuhrmann, a professor at Texas A&M University who has written extensively about nuclear weapons and disarmament, including in the books “Influence Without Arms: The New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence” and “Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy” with Todd S. Sechser. We last talked around the time of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, when nuclear threats were also in the news.

Our conversation about the developments this week, conducted by email and edited for length and style, is below:

What do Putin and Trump mean by ‘nuclear test’?

WOLF: Both Trump and Putin referred to nuclear tests this week, but neither the US nor Russia is supposed to have tested nuclear weapons since the ‘90s. What did you make of Russia’s test and the US response? Is this the kind of coercive diplomacy you’ve written about or something else?

FUHRMANN: It’s firstly important to clarify what we mean by a “nuclear test.” Russia has tested missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons. But, in the traditional sense, a nuclear test is a denotation of a nuclear explosive device. Think of the July 1945 Trinity test in the New Mexico desert that you may have seen depicted in the 2023 film “Oppenheimer” (although after the signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963, most nuclear explosive tests were done underground rather than in the atmosphere). This is not what Russia has done, and I don’t believe this is what the US is threatening to resume, either.

There are two main reasons why countries test military technologies. The first is to see whether a weapon works as designed. The second is to send a political message to other countries. I think there’s a certain amount of signaling attached to Russia’s recent missile tests. Although it’s difficult to decipher Moscow’s intentions, in testing these technologies, the Kremlin may be implicitly saying to the United States and NATO: Back off in Ukraine — look what we might do if you continue to interfere.

More worried about a nuclear crisis today than four years ago

WOLF: Do you generally think the threat of a nuclear standoff has increased in recent years?

FUHRMANN: I’m more worried about the possibility of a serious nuclear crisis today than I was at the end of 2021. This is in large part because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the possibility that Moscow may continue to brandish its nuclear arsenal to help it prevail in that war. But it’s not just that. The possibility of a US-China nuclear standoff over Taiwan is not trivial, especially if one side misinterprets the other’s resolve to fight. North Korea’s nuclear capabilities are expanding too, and there is the potential for disaster on the Korean Peninsula arising from an accident or miscalculation. Not to mention the perennial possibility of a nuclear-tinged crisis between India and Pakistan. This doesn’t mean that the probability of a standoff is high. Actually, I still think it’s relatively low. But given the stakes involved, even a small increase in the risk — say, 2% — is cause for concern.

Do US missile defenses work?

WOLF: Coincidentally, there’s a movie on Netflix about the 30 minutes it would take for an intercontinental ballistic missile to reach the US and the difficulty of intercepting such a missile. The Pentagon felt the need to produce a memo responding to the film. Are missile defense systems any better than the coin toss suggested by the movie?

FUHRMANN: I haven’t seen the movie yet. I’ll leave that question to technical experts who understand the intricacies of missile defense systems better than I do. I will say that, from a strategic standpoint, there’s value in convincing your adversaries that your missile defense systems are impenetrable. This can strengthen deterrence: If adversaries believe their missiles won’t get through, they may be less likely to fire them.

Would Trump’s Golden Dome solve the nuclear threat?

WOLF: Trump (taking cues from Project 2025) has called for a new “Golden Dome” missile defense shield. Is it worth the cost and would that do anything to solve the nuclear threat?

FUHRMANN: That’s a complicated question. On the surface, missile defense sounds great – and in some ways it is. Consider, for example, the relatively high rate at which Israel successfully shot down missiles fired by Iran in their war over the summer. However, in the long run, developing these systems can encourage your adversaries to develop technologies that circumvent your defenses, or to develop missile defenses of their own. In the end, you may get a costly arms race that leaves both sides worse off. The United States and the Soviet Union recognized this during the Cold War, which is one reason they agreed to the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty.

Will the expiring Obama-era nuclear treaty be renegotiated?

WOLF: The US and Russia have a nuclear arms treaty that expires in February. New START, negotiated during the Obama administration, limits the size of the countries’ nuclear stockpiles. Will it be renegotiated?

FUHRMANN: The prospects currently look bleak. As long as there is tension over the war in Ukraine, it’s hard to imagine Russia agreeing to a new arms control deal with the United States. If that tension is alleviated, the prospects for a deal would improve.

What about China?

WOLF: Should China or other countries be a part of that process?

FUHRMANN: Many US policymakers would like to include China as part of an arms control deal with Russia. The problem is that China’s nuclear capabilities currently lag behind Russia and the United States. Countries usually don’t like to negotiate from a position of weakness. As China’s nuclear arsenal expands — a trend that is happening — a trilateral deal becomes more likely, especially if Beijing achieves parity with the other two countries.

Bring back the test ban treaty?

WOLF: Bill Clinton helped negotiate the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in the 1990s but failed to get the US Senate to ratify it. Trump isn’t talking about reviving it, but if he could get the handful of nuclear powers that have likewise not ratified the test ban treaty — including China, Russia, North Korea, India, Pakistan and Israel — to ratify it, would he be a shoo-in for the Nobel Peace Prize?

FUHRMANN: The US Senate vote on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1999 was a setback for global nonproliferation. There are obstacles to bringing the CTBT into force in the current political environment. If the Trump administration was able to get this done, it would be a major foreign policy achievement.

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All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Trump says he wants to resume nuclear testing. Here’s what that would mean

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President Trump said Thursday that the U.S. would begin testing nuclear weapons again for the first time in decades … All Things Considered …

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with … – Instagram

Full Coverage

Why is there so much talk about nuclear weapons this week? | CNN Politics

CNN

… all these nuclear weapons that exist in the world and that pose a great threat to all mankind.” A House of Dynamite. (L-R) Anthony Ramos as Major …

President Trump says he wants to resume nuclear testing – WVTF

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Nuclear Power

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Trump orders nuclear weapons testing to begin immediately on equal basisuclear … – Fox News

Fox News

… nuclear–powered weapon delivery systems, like ballistic and cruise missiles. Correll said that since neither China nor Russia has conducted a nuclear …

Trump says he wants to resume nuclear testing. Here’s why experts are confused – CNN

CNN

In the wake of Russian President Vladimir Putin bragging about his country testing both a nuclear–powered torpedo and a new cruise missile, …

Is the world back to testing nuclear weapons? Here are the facts | CBC News

CBC

Last week, Russia tested a nuclear–powered missile, but did not detonate an actual bomb. In response, President Donald Trump said this week the U.S. …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

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Nuclear War Threats

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Trump wants to resume US nuclear weapons testing. This is what it could look like

ABC News

… nuclear threats were on the rise. How nuclear weapons are tested … The threat of nuclear war seemed to end with the Cold War, but in 2024 …

Donald Trump’s alarming muddle about nuclear-weapons testing – The Economist

The Economist

This fictional fog of nuclear war is … And Russia’s nuclear threats have limited the military assistance that the West has provided Ukraine.

Clip: Trump’s trade deals in Asia and threats to resume nuclear testing – PBS

PBS

Clip: Trump’s trade deals in Asia and threats to resume nuclear testing … And the fact is they got a truce in the trade war, but it’s a trade war …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Trump wants to resume US nuclear weapons testing. This is what it could look like

ABC News

Nearly all of the hard-won treaties that constrained nuclear weapons since the end of the Cold War have been abrogated, he added. The last remaining …

Why is there so much talk about nuclear weapons this week? | CNN Politics

CNN

… nuclear arsenal to help it prevail in that war. But it’s not just that. The possibility of a US-China nuclear standoff over Taiwan is not trivial …

Putin Brandishes Menacing Nuclear Weapons as Talks With U.S. Falter

The New York Times

… War, when the Soviet Union regularly emphasized that for the world’s … 21 of the Burevestnik, a low-flying, nuclear-propelled Russian cruise missile .

Discussion about this post

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity.” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Oct 31, 2025

Today’s Image . . .

A mushroom cloud rises from a test blast at the Nevada Test Site on June 24, 1957. (U.S. Energy Department via AP, File)

LLAW’s All Things Nuclear Review Today . . .

Somebody needs to talk to an adult at the White House and find out what the heck he’s talking about,” Kimball told Newsweek early Thursday. “I can’t discern his grumblings beyond what you can. If he’s talking about resuming weapons test explosions for the first time since 1992, he is misinformed about what that’s for and whether it’s necessary.” ~ Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association

Anyone on planet Earth who believes that reviving nuclear testing at the same time he is discussing nuclear “demilitarization” — which is not even a word with a meaningful official definition — is insane to the ‘nth-degree’.

This kind of “seriously” wrong and twisted childish speech along with one man’s insane spur of the moment orders to the Pentagon to restart nuclear testing after 33 years of stepping away from such nonsense is a self-aggrandizing mental illness and must be silenced — especially if the “he” is the President of the United Sates — because such talk incites mistrust and invites this unstable world’s urge to demand nuclear war — the very thing we are trying in vain to rid ourselves from, but to the best of us are allowing, or maybe inviting, their leaders free reign to end the world as we once knew it even if a paltry few of us should survive by the grace of some unknown divinity.

As Darryl Kimball bluntly points out above — somebody needs to talk to an “adult” in the White House. I assume it’s because although Trump is incompetent in every way there is to run our government, he is “misinformed” about the most serious problem on planet Earth. I would say he is “mistaken” just as he is in so many other functions of our federal government.

I keep wondering how long we are going to continue to allow this deranged man’s presidency to continue on with his unqualified administration and the blood-sucking sycophants to continue threatening the very lives of us all — including innocent animals — for what would amount to a virtual eternity . . . ~llaw

Today’s Feature Story from LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY is from category. . .

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Donald Trump’s Nuclear Announcement Sparks Alarm: ‘He Is Misinformed’

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Oct 30, 2025 at 01:51 PM EDT

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Oct 30, 2025 at 04:06 PM EDT

By Joshua Rhett Miller

Chief Investigative Reporter

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The resumption of nuclear weapons testing by the United States will undermine national security, arms control advocates told Newsweek.

Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, denounced President Trump’s directive for the Department of War to immediately restart nuclear weapons testing for the first time in more than 30 years as reckless and unclear.

“Somebody needs to talk to an adult at the White House and find out what the heck he’s talking about,” Kimball told Newsweek early Thursday. “I can’t discern his grumblings beyond what you can. If he’s talking about resuming weapons test explosions for the first time since 1992, he is misinformed about what that’s for and whether it’s necessary.”

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Kimball said Trump’s announcement on Truth Social on Wednesday was likely to spark strong opposition in Nevada, where the last nuclear detonations in the U.S. occurred underground, as well as potential ramifications abroad.

“It’s not militarily, technically or politically necessary,” Kimball continued. “It would lead to a chain reaction of nuclear tests by other countries, including Russia, probably North Korea, maybe China, and it would undermine U.S. security because the United States has conducted more nuclear tests — 1,030 — than any other country.”

Trump’s proposal will also face “tremendous opposition” from Congress, Kimball said, including legislators in Nevada like U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, who indicated late Wednesday she intends to introduce legislation to “put a stop” to Trump’s proposed shift.

The resumption of nuclear testing at the former site in Nevada would take up to 36 months and cost up to “hundreds of millions,” Kimball said.

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A mushroom cloud rises from a test blast at the Nevada Test Site on June 24, 1957. (U.S. Energy Department via AP, File)

“Many hundreds of millions of dollars,” he said. “If you can imagine, you’ve got to drill a vertical shaft, you have to bring in cranes, equipment, drillers, personnel. You have to make sure that containment is right and you have to get federal reviews, etcetera, etcetera. Congress would have an opportunity at some point to block this.”

North Korea is the lone country to have conducted a nuclear test explosion this century and the United States signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1996, Kimball said.

“Most of all, we need to be asking why,” Kimball added. “What is the purpose? How does this advance our interests? This would take us back to the worst days of the Cold War where the U.S. and the Soviet Union were conducting tit-for-tat atmospheric nuclear test explosions to simply show the other side that we’ve got big bombs too.”

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Kimball said Trump’s announcement represented an “incoherence and inconsistency” regarding nuclear weapons, citing prior recent calls to denuclearize.

“And now he’s talking about responding with our own nuclear tests,” he explained. “It’s incoherent, it’s illogical and when it comes to nuclear weapons, we simply cannot afford the kind of zig-zagging policies that we’re seeing from Trump on so many other topics.”

A message seeking additional details from the White House on Trump’s directive was not immediately returned on Thursday.

Alicia Sanders-Zakre, policy and research coordinator for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), characterized Trump’s announcement as “incoherent, untrue and alarming,” alleging his misrepresented the size of arsenals in the U.S., Russia and China.

Trump has also mistakenly claimed that China and Russia are currently testing nuclear weapons and directed the incorrect agency — the Department of War — to resume testing rather than the Department of Energy, which oversees the nation’s nuclear warheads, Sanders-Zakre said.

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“The fact that Trump referenced Russian and Chinese activities and the Department of War could be interpreted as signaling that he was referring to testing nuclear-capable missiles, which all three countries do regularly test,” she told Newsweek.

The most recent nuclear test in the United States took place at the Nevada National Security Site, where nearly 1,000 detonations have occurred. Other U.S.-led detonations have happened in New Mexico, the Marshall Islands and Kiribati in the central Pacific, where joint testing occurred with the United Kingdom, Sanders-Zakre said.

In 2005, the National Cancer Institute estimated that 22,000 cancers resulting in 11,000 U.S. deaths would be caused in the aftermath of the Nevada nuclear tests, Sanders-Zakre added.

“Nuclear detonations in the Pacific obliterated entire atolls, and left others uninhabitable to this day,” she wrote in an email. “It was due in large part to the nationwide and global opposition to nuclear test detonations – and their clear devastating impacts for people and the environment – that nuclear test detonations were prohibited by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996.”

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Any move by the United States to restart nuclear testing will evoke “widespread national and global condemnation,” Sanders-Zakre said.

The United States is slated to spend $95 billion on its nuclear arsenal per year over the next decade and ICAN estimated global nuclear spending last year at $100 billion, she said.

“Any additional funds wasted on weapons of mass destruction is diverting resources that could address real security needs,” Sanders-Zakre wrote in an email.

A senior Russian lawmaker, meanwhile, also warned Thursday that any move by the United States to resume nuclear testing could trigger global instability.

Dr. Emma Belcher, a nuclear proliferation expert at Ploughshares, a nonprofit that aims to reduce nuclear threats, described Trump’s directive as “reckless, needless and dangerous” for national and world security.

“While the details of this policy shift are unclear, including whether Trump is referring to missile testing or explosive nuclear tests, it threatens to upend relations between nuclear-armed states and push the world deeper into a new arms race,” Belcher told Newsweek in a statement. “If the U.S. breaks its 30-year moratorium on nuclear tests, China and Russia will likely return to wide-scale explosive testing. On the international level, this will heighten the risks of great power competition and increase the likelihood that strategic tensions lead to nuclear catastrophe.”

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Nuclear World News for Friday, (10/31/2025). . .

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Trump says he wants to resume nuclear testing. Here’s what that would mean – NPR

NPR

Trump says he wants to resume nuclear testing. Here’s what that would mean. October 30, 20251:06 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered · Geoff …

Trump said the US would begin testing nukes. It caught even some advisers by surprise.

CNN

“Russia has nearly completed their modernization of all of their nuclear … about a change in the decades long moratorium on nuclear testing. The …

Trump’s Call to Resume Nuclear Testing After Decades Revives a Cold War Debate

The New York Times

… all the other countries conducting nuclear tests. “We’ve halted it … “Yes, we can learn things by nuclear testing,” Dr. Hecker said in an …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Trump’s big nuclear reactor push raises safety concerns – Reuters

Reuters

The deal is one of the most ambitious plans in U.S. atomic energy in decades, underscoring President Donald Trump’s agenda to maximize energy output …

Nuclear saber-rattling from Trump and Putin signals a dangerous new era | CNN

CNN

“The Poseidon’s power significantly exceeds that of our most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile,” the Russian president told his already war- …

Trump’s Call to Resume Nuclear Testing After Decades Revives a Cold War Debate

The New York Times

… nuclear weapons: a nuclear–powered cruise missile and an undersea torpedo, called Poseidon, that could cross the Pacific and strike the West Coast …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Homeowner shares story of surviving 3-day blackout caused by ‘freak storm’ – MSN

MSN

“If you develop a plan for emergencies to power the things you … Another shuttered nuclear power plant is getting new life, thanks to Big Tech.

International mission measures Latvia’s nuclear readiness – Reliable news from Latvia

Reliable news from Latvia – LSM

… nuclear and radiological emergencies, according … Latvia does not operate any nuclear power plants. The country uses …

IAEA: Russian attack hits Ukraine’s nuclear grid

The New Voice of Ukraine

DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, confirmed “serious damage” to several thermal power plants across the country. Emergency blackouts …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

California Gov. Gavin Newsom pans Trump’s nuclear testing directive: ‘Weakness … – NBC News

NBC News

… War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately.” He also claimed in the post that the United …

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

PBS

… threats to both the U.S. and Europe during its war on Ukraine. Moscow … nuclear threat rises. By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press. People …

Donald Trump’s nuclear announcement sparks alarm: ‘He is misinformed’ – Newsweek

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Video. Rebecca Ferguson On ‘A House of Dynamite’ And The Nuclear Threat … War to immediately restart nuclear weapons testing for the first time …

Nuclear War

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Trump appears to suggest the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons for first time in 30 years

PBS

… War-era escalations. “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on …

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Discussion about this post

“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity.” ~llaw

Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Oct 30, 2025

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One shortly after taking off from Busan, South Korea, en route to Joint Base Andrews, Md., Thursday. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

LLAW’s All Things Nuclear Review Today . . .

Then and now: Remember when Trump continuously bragged that he would end the Russia/Ukraine war in 24 hours as a huge part of his 2nd campaign lies?

Well, this week Trump told reporters while traveling between Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, “You’ve got to get the war ended. A war that should have taken one week is now in its soon fourth year. That’s what you ought to do instead of testing missiles.”

So now he, a couple of days later, has suddenly ordered the Pentagon to begin nuclear weapons testing immediately, as if what he said about Putin’s nuclear testing rather than “getting the war ended instead of testing missiles”. Two days later he jumps right in with his own less than brilliant idea to — after 30 years of no testing by the US — with a whimsical thought that if Russia and China can do it, the USA can do it. But tomorrow his irresponsible attention span will move on to some other potential disastrous idea . . .

I seem to remember that several years ago that Trump told the whole world that he could end the Russia/Ukraine war in 24 hours as a campaign promise. This man can’t keep track of what he is doing from one day to the next— and when you are dealing with nuclear weapons of mass destruction you had better know exactly what you’re doing and then some. Trump has no idea . . .

Read on to get my point(s) to your hearts’ contents from the two other well-said warnings from other news sources, both of which need more than simply a quick scan and a “forget about it”— and stop telling yourself and others you hang with that “there is nothing we can do. This is early in the 4th year of this blog and a daily 1,091 times that there is something we can all do — and a big part of that is to come together in global unity — and demand of our questionable leaders — that “All Things Nuclear” be forever removed from our lives. ~llaw

Today’s Feature Story from LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY is from category. . .

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

If the US resumes nuclear weapons testing, this would be extremely dangerous for humanity

Published: October 30, 2025 4:27am EDT

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US President Donald Trump has instructed the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing immediately, “on an equal basis” with other countries’ testing programs.

If Trump is referring to the resumption of explosive nuclear testing, this would be an extremely unfortunate, regrettable step by the United States.

It would almost inevitably be followed by tit-for-tat reciprocal announcements by other nuclear-armed states, particularly Russia and China, and cement an accelerating arms race that puts us all in great jeopardy.

It would also create profound risks of radioactive fallout globally. Even if such nuclear tests are conducted underground, this poses a risk in terms of the possible release and venting of radioactive materials, as well as the potential leakage into groundwater.

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty has been signed by 187 states – it’s one of the most widely supported disarmament treaties in the world.

The US signed the treaty decades ago, but has yet to ratify it. Nonetheless, it is actually legally bound not to violate the spirit and purpose of the treaty while it’s a signatory.

What testing is used for, and why it stopped

In earlier years, the purpose of testing was to understand the effects of nuclear weapons – for example, the blast damage at different distances, which provides confidence around destroying a given military target.

Understanding the consequences of nuclear weapons helps militaries plan their use, and to some extent, protect their own military equipment and people from the possible use of nuclear weapons by adversaries.

But since the end of the second world war, states have mostly used testing as part of the development of new weapons designs. There have been a very large number of tests, more than 2,000, mostly seeking to understand how these new weapons work.

The huge environmental and health problems caused by nuclear testing prompted nations to agree a moratorium on atmospheric testing for a couple of years in the early 1960s. In 1963, the Partial Test Ban Treaty banned nuclear tests in all environments except underground.

Since then, nuclear-armed states have stopped explosively testing at different times. The US stopped in 1992, while France stopped in 1996. China and Russia also aren’t known to have conducted any tests since the 1990s. North Korea is the only state to have openly tested a nuclear weapon this century, most recently in 2017.

These stoppages came in the 1990s for a reason: by that time, it became possible to test new nuclear weapon designs reliably through technical and computer developments, without having to actually explode them.

So, essentially, the nuclear states, particularly the more advanced ones, stopped when they no longer needed to explosively test new weapon designs to keep modernising their stocks, as they’re still doing.

Worrying levels of nuclear proliferation

There is some good news on the nuclear weapons front. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has now been signed by half the world’s nations. This is a historic treaty that, for the first time, bans nuclear weapons and provides the only internationally agreed framework for their eventual elimination.

With the exception of this significant development, however, everything else has been going badly.

All nine nuclear-armed states (the US, China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel) are investing unprecedented sums in developing more accurate, stealthier, longer-range, faster, more concealable nuclear weapons.

This potentially lowers the threshold for their use. And it certainly gives no indication these powers are serious about fulfilling their legally binding obligations to disarm under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Moreover, multiple nuclear-armed states have been involved in recent conflicts in which nuclear threats have been made, most notably Russia and Israel.

Worryingly, we have also seen the numbers of nuclear weapons “available for use” actually start to climb again.

This includes those in military stockpiles, those that have been deployed (linked to delivery systems such as missiles), and those on high alert, which are the ones most prone to accidental use because they can be launched within minutes of a decision to do so. All of these categories are on the increase.

Russia, in particular, has weapons we haven’t seen before, such as a nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile that President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday his country has successfully tested. China, too, is embarking on a rapid build-up of nuclear weapons.

And the US has just completed assembling a new nuclear gravity bomb.

A new START treaty also not moving forward

Nearly all of the hard-won treaties that constrained nuclear weapons since the end of the Cold War have been abrogated.

There’s now just one remaining treaty constraining 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons, which are in the hands of the US and Russia. This is the New START Treaty, which is set to expire in February next year.

Putin offered to extend that treaty informally for another year, and Trump has said this is a good idea. But its official end is just four months away, and no actual negotiations on a successor treaty have begun.

The US has also said China needs to be involved in the successor treaty, which would make it enormously more complicated. China has not expressed a willingness to be part of the process.

Whether anything will be negotiated to maintain these restraints beyond February is unclear. None of the nuclear-armed states are negotiating any other new treaties, either.

All of this means the Doomsday Clock – one of the most authoritative and best-known assessments of the existential threats facing the world – has moved forward this year further than it has ever done before.

It’s really an extraordinarily dangerous time in history.

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By Sarah Naffa

October 30, 2025

In the news today: The U.S. may resume testing nuclear weapons; Trump cuts tariffs on China after meeting Xi; and the U.S. confirms cuts in the U.S. troop presence on NATO’s borders with Ukraine. Also, the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum’s opening puts the King Tut collection in one place for the first time in a century.

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One shortly after taking off from Busan, South Korea, en route to Joint Base Andrews, Md., Thursday. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

POLITICS

Trump appears to suggest the US will resume testing nuclear weapons for first time in 30 years

President Donald Trump appeared to suggest the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons, saying it would be on an “equal basis” with Russia and China. Read more.

Why this matters:

• “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “That process will begin immediately.” The White House did not immediately respond to questions seeking more details.
• There was no indication the U.S. would start detonating warheads, but the president offered few details about what seemed to be a significant shift in U.S. policy. The U.S. military already regularly tests its missiles that are capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, but it has not detonated the weapons since 1992 because of a test ban.
  
• Daryl Kimball, the executive director of the Washington-based Arms Control Association, quickly criticized the president’s announcement and said Trump was “misinformed and out of touch.”

RELATED COVERAGE ➤

• Trump’s comments on nuclear testing upend decades of US policy. Here’s what to know about it
• US will share tech to let South Korea build a nuclear-powered submarine, Trump says
• What shutdown? Trump isn’t canceling travel, golf or his ballroom even with the government shuttered
• A man who spent 43 years in prison before his conviction was overturned now faces deportation
• Trump ramps up involvement in this year’s elections in possible preview of midterms pressure
• JD Vance calls for reduction in legal immigration at Turning Point event
• Nigeria’s Nobel-winning author Wole Soyinka says his US visa was revoked
• Democrats needed a new approach on a key House committee. Then came the uproar over Jeffrey Epstein
• Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh indicted over ICE protests outside Chicago
• A Confederate statue is restored as part of Trump’s efforts to reshape how history is told
• He helped deliver Arab American support for Trump. Now his path to Mideast post faces GOP opposition
• Colorado says relocation of Space Command to Alabama is ‘punishment’ for mail-in voting
• US strikes another alleged drug-carrying boat in the Pacific and kills all 4 aboard, Hegseth says
• Wisconsin moving ahead with prison overhaul plan despite Republican objections
• Months after a man was killed at a ‘No Kings’ march, no one has been charged. His wife wants answers
• Judges rule some Florida gun laws are unconstitutional. Here’s what to know
• AP Decision Notes: What to expect in California’s special election
• AP Decision Notes: What to expect in New York on Election Day
• AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Virginia on Election Day

WORLD NEWS

Trump cuts tariffs on China after meeting Xi in South Korea

President Donald Trump described his face-to-face with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday as a roaring success, saying he would cut tariffs on China, while Beijing had agreed to allow the export of rare earth elements and start buying American soybeans. Read more.

Why this matters:

• The president told reporters aboard Air Force One that the U.S. would lower tariffs implemented earlier this year as punishment on China for its selling of chemicals used to make fentanyl from 20% to 10%. That brings the total combined tariff rate on China down from 57% to 47%
  
• “I guess on the scale from 0 to 10, with ten being the best, I would say the meeting was a 12,” Trump said. “I think it was a 12.” Trump said that he would go to China in April and Xi would come to the U.S. “some time after that.” The president said they also discussed the export of more advanced computer chips to China, saying that Nvidia would be in talks with Chinese officials.
• Xi said Washington and Beijing would work to finalize their agreements to provide “peace of mind” to both countries and the rest of the world, according to a report on the meeting distributed by state media.

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• China says it will work with US to resolve issues related to TikTok
  
• Senate vote on nullifying tariffs on Canada demonstrates opposition to Trump’s trade policy
• Ontario’s premier says US ambassador should apologize for tirade against his diplomat

WORLD NEWS

The US draws down troops on NATO’s eastern flank as Europe frets about a security vacuum

The U.S. confirmed on Wednesday that it will reduce its troop presence on NATO’s borders with Ukraine but shed no light on any future cuts, as its allies worry about a security gap being created at a time when Russia is increasingly confrontational. Read more.

Why this matters:

• The U.S. armed forces denied it was a sign of lessened commitment to NATO. NATO allies have expressed concern that the Trump administration might leave a security vacuum as European countries confront an increasingly aggressive Russia. Analysts say it might tempt Russia to test the military alliance.
  
• Depending on operations and exercises, around 80,000-100,000 U.S. troops are usually present on European soil. The administration has been reviewing its military “posture” in Europe and elsewhere, but U.S. officials have said that the findings of the review were not expected to be known before early next year.

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TODAY’s LLAW;s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS

About Today’s Nuclear News and How it Works:

There are 7 categories, including a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcano and caldera activity around the world that also play an important role in the survival of human and other life.

The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). If there was no news from a Category today, the Category will not appear. The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

1. All Things Nuclear
2. Nuclear Power
3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
4. Nuclear War Threats
5. Nuclear War
6. Yellowstone Caldera
7. IAEA News (Friday’s only)

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.

Nuclear World News for Thursday, (10/30/2025). . .

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Nuclear saber-rattling from Trump and Putin signals a dangerous new era | CNN

CNN

Their deployment, if it happens at all, is likely to be a long, long way off. … 5 things to know for Oct. 30: Trump-Xi meeting, Nuclear weapons …

Trump suggests the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons | Boise State Public Radio

Boise State Public Radio

All Things Considered · Reader’s Corner · Our Living Lands · Something I … Other countries, he said, “seem to all be nuclear testing” but when it …

Trump instructs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons ‘on an equal basis’ with Russia and China

CNN

5 Things Quiz · About CNN · Subscribe · Photos · Investigations · CNN … “They seem to all be nuclear testing,” Trump said, speaking from Air Force One …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Trump orders Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing, citing rival nations’ programs

CNBC

The announcement followed reports that Russia had successfully tested a Poseidon nuclear–powered super torpedo on Wednesday. File photo of a U.S. …

Trump directs nuclear weapons testing to resume for first time in over 30 years – BBC

BBC

It has not conducted nuclear weapons testing since 1992. It comes just days after Trump denounced Russia for testing a nuclear–powered missile, which …

Trump tells Pentagon to immediately resume testing US nuclear weapons – Reuters

Reuters

Putin said on Wednesday Russia had successfully tested a Poseidon nuclear–powered super torpedo that military analysts say is capable of devastating …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Pa. nuclear reactor shut down: What happened at Susquehanna station? (UPDATE)

Lehigh Valley Live

… power lines. “First responders were dispatched, but no emergency actions were necessary as there was no fire and no injuries. “The plant responded .

Officials discuss safety measures after explosion at nuclear power plant – WBRE

WBRE

But is Luzerne County prepared for a nuclear disaster? “Absolutely, the county actually has an emergency operation plan developed by Susquehanna Steam …

IAEA Reviews Latvia’s Nuclear Emergency Preparedness and Response

International Atomic Energy Agency

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has concluded a ten-day mission to review Latvia’s preparedness and response …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

If the US resumes nuclear weapons testing, this would be extremely dangerous for humanity

The Conversation

It would also create profound risks of radioactive fallout globally. Even if such nuclear tests are conducted underground, this poses a risk in terms …

Nuclear saber-rattling from Trump and Putin signals a dangerous new era | CNN

CNN

Certainly, the timing of the latest threats, as diplomatic progress … “He ought to get the war ended, a war that should have taken one week …

Trump and Xi Ease Off the Trade War, but New Nuclear Threat Brings a Chill

The New York Times

Trump and Xi Ease Off the Trade War, but New Nuclear Threat Brings a Chill … nuclear threats between global powers. Just minutes before he …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Trump instructs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons ‘on an equal basis’ with Russia and China

CNN

“Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That …

Trump asks Pentagon to immediately resume testing US nuclear weapons – Reuters

Reuters

“Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That …

Trump directs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons – The Hill

The Hill

President Trump said on Wednesday that he has instructed the Defense Department (DOD) to immediately begin testing U.S. nuclear … A war that should …

Discussion about this post

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Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Oct 29, 2025

Today’s Image . . .

• Sentinel ICBM U.S. Air Force. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

LLAW’s All Things Nuclear Review Today . . .

“Lloyd Pendergraft”

NEWS

Citizen Portal AI

Opponents, including Representatives Larson Lloyd, Pendergraft, Lawley and others, described the amendment as necessary to protect private …

This is why AI is only as good as its original programmers — and the error is all because AI failed to recognize a common comma in a news article and made me into a Wyoming Republican State Representative. OMG!!!

Though this is minor AI/developer mistake, the future of AI is bound to eventually learn to correct its own mistakes and rule not only the written word but also overrule the activities and both written and oral information of humanity itself . . . So, llolloll for now, but we are in dire danger from the progress of AI as well as we are from nuclear war and energy, and AI is already invading the mechanics of both of these nuclear activities. And also AI is becoming a major part of developing new military and nuclear reactor hardware as well controlling operational controls.

As for the “Feature Story” today, it is based on non-stop advances in military hardware and mechanical progress increasing the threat of nuclear war including the possibility of a USA/China opening salvo that is related to the same concept(s) referred to in the AI world mentioned above . . . ~llaw

(Oh, and now that I am, according to AI, a Republican politician turned “bad”, I should soon have 100s of thousands of new blog subscribers as well as my much care-about current group of casual readers.)

Today’s Feature Story from LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY is from category. . .

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

The Road to a China-America Nuclear War

By

Andrew Latham

Published

3 hours ago

• Sentinel ICBM U.S. Air Force. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Key Points and Summary- While a U.S.-China nuclear war is not inevitable due to mutual deterrence, the risk of “accidental” escalation is rising.

-China’s rapid nuclear expansion—adding 100 warheads annually since 2023—erodes stability.

Type 100 Tank from China. Chinese Media Screenshot.

-A future conventional war, fought at “blinding speed” with cyber and space weapons, could lead to a tragic miscalculation.

-A U.S. conventional strike on a “dual-use” Chinese target might be misinterpreted as a disarming first strike, prompting a nuclear “use or lose” response.

-Without new arms control dialogues, the world risks “Thucydidean” forces of fear and mistrust tragically leading to a war no one wants.

The U.S.-China Nuclear War Threat?

A nuclear war between China and the US is not inevitable.

Both know that the price would be incalculable; both have powerful incentives to avoid it. But rational aversion to war — conventional or nuclear — is not always sufficient to prevent war.

As Thucydides wrote over two millennia ago, the forces of fear, honor, and interest—the eternal causes of state action—can lead to wars that no one wants.

In the 21st century, the same forces might well be at play in the growing—and increasingly fraught—competition between the United States and China.

And even as Beijing and Washington act rationally, the structures of power, pride, and paranoia in which they move can still make disaster possible.

The Erosion of Deterrence

Since 2023, Beijing has added to its arsenal at a rate of about one hundred warheads per year, now possessing at least six hundred and counting.

The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that this “rapid expansion,” combined with the collapse of arms-control agreements, is likely to be “the most significant driver of the threat environment” for the rest of the decade. China’s official doctrine of “no first use” and limited nuclear use remains in place, but its deployment of more survivable missiles, new launch platforms, and more capable sensors is undermining the mutual understanding that once stabilized the nuclear relationship.

The world is entering a period when both capabilities and uncertainty are growing—just the combination that makes escalation harder to control.

China Stealth Fighter Screenshot from X Platform

This does not mean that a nuclear war between the United States and China is preordained.

The most plausible contingencies between the two would begin—and might remain—entirely conventional.

Both sides have powerful incentives to keep it that way. Economic interdependence, political legitimacy, and the mutual knowledge that nuclear use would destroy what each most values are all powerful disincentives to crossing the nuclear threshold. In past statements and international exercises, Beijing has signaled that it would reserve nuclear use for existential threats, a stance that, in a limited war, might keep nuclear restraint in place. Deterrence, at least for now, still works.

The logic of mutual vulnerability has been battered but not broken. The Cold War’s “mutual assured destruction” may not map perfectly onto the U.S.–China relationship, but the central idea remains: each side fears what the other can do. China fears an American counter-force strike; the United States fears a sudden Chinese launch. Both understand that a nuclear war would be catastrophic.

This mutual recognition breeds caution. In war games that model U.S.–China conflict scenarios, participants often escalate conventional violence to extraordinary levels but draw back at the nuclear threshold, revealing an instinctive sense of the abyss that lies beyond it.

The Rising Risk of Escalation

But the guardrails are eroding.

A conventional war in East Asia today would unfold at blinding speed, in multiple domains—air, sea, cyber, and space—all threaded through dense networks of sensors and automated command systems. In such an environment, uncertainty and fear can become as dangerous as intent.

A conventional attack against dual-use targets such as radar installations, missile batteries, or submarines might easily be seen as an attempt to degrade a second-strike capability. Even a limited operation by the United States could be seen in Beijing as the opening phase of decapitation. In that moment, the rational logic of deterrence gives way to the tragic logic of “use or lose.”

China Aircraft Carrier in Port. Image Credit: Chinese Navy.

The arms race itself fuels the danger. The era of nuclear reductions is over. New delivery systems, increased warhead production, and the development of exotic technologies—hypersonics, space-based sensors, autonomous targeting—are all eroding the predictability on which deterrence depends.

The frameworks that once moderated this competition are collapsing.

What is left is a volatile brew of modernization and mutual mistrust. The more each side tries to secure itself, the less secure both become—a paradox that would not have been unfamiliar to Thucydides.

The Pathways to Nuclear Use

If war does come, the slide from conventional to nuclear could follow several plausible paths. A conventional strike on Chinese nuclear or dual-use assets could be misinterpreted as a disarming first strike, prompting nuclear retaliation from Beijing.

Or China, fearful of an imminent U.S. strike and unwilling to lose its retaliatory capacity, might use a small number of nuclear weapons preemptively to try to compel Washington to back down—a move aimed at restoring deterrence through shock.

Or a false alarm, a cyber intrusion, or a misinterpreted military exercise could trigger a hair-trigger response before either side understood what had happened.

In each pathway, there is a tragic choice: in the crucible of a major crisis, one side or the other might be left with the unbearable choice between accepting defeat—backing down, losing a conventional war, or risking a crippling first strike—and using nuclear weapons. And even if nuclear use were limited, its effects would be unpredictable.

A single detonation intended as a warning could instead produce uncontrolled escalation. What one side sees as coercive restraint, the other might see as the opening salvo of annihilation.

The grim truth is that nuclear use might not end the war; it might transform it. One side might step back, horrified; the other might press forward in fury or fear. History gives no warrant that reason would prevail once the nuclear threshold has been crossed.

China J-20 Fighter in Camo 2021. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Preserving Stability in an Age of Instability

The lesson is that crisis stability must be restored before it is tested. Both Washington and Beijing must work to strengthen communication channels, safeguard command and control, and revive serious arms-control dialogues.

Even limited agreements on transparency, on reducing the risk of misinterpretation of dual-use systems, or on notification of exercises could help to reinject friction into the hair-trigger machinery of deterrence. The goal is not to end rivalry but to manage it, to keep fear from turning into fatalism.

If deterrence fails, it is much likelier to do so not through deliberate aggression but through accident, panic, or the tragic logic of reciprocal fear.

A nuclear exchange, if it ever occurred, would not only destroy those nations but would also mark the ultimate failure of the international system to restrain itself. The United States and China still have time to prevent that outcome, but time alone will not do the work.

Seen from Washington, the central mission of American strategy is to maintain those disincentives to crossing the nuclear threshold. And that is the most prudent course.

Thucydides would have seen the risk, however: that when fear, pride, and necessity meet, even prudent states can do imprudent things. The lesson of tragedy is not that disaster is inevitable, but that it becomes possible when power and hubris outrun restraint— a truth as old as Athens and no less true in the Indo-Pacific today.

About the Author: Dr. Andrew Latham

Andrew Latham is a non-resident fellow at Defense Priorities and a professor of international relations and political theory at Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN. You can follow him on X: @aakatham. He writes a daily column for the National Security Journal.

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TODAY’S NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS, Wednesday, (10/29/2025)

About Today’s Nuclear News and How it Works:

There are 7 categories, including a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcano and caldera activity around the world that also play an important role in the survival of human and other life.

The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). If there was no news from a Category today, the Category will not appear. The Categories are listed below in their usual order:

1. All Things Nuclear
2. Nuclear Power
3. Nuclear Power Emergencies
4. Nuclear War Threats
5. Nuclear War
6. Yellowstone Caldera
7. IAEA News (Friday’s only)

A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.

Today’s Nuclear World News . . .

All Things Nuclear

NEWS

North Korea touts missile tests as Trump visits South Korea – WVTF

WVTF

All Things Considered. Next Up: 6:00 PM Marketplace. 0:00. 0:00. All Things … It said the weapons would contribute to expanding the operational sphere …

Trump Administration Backs Plan for New Nuclear Plants – The New York Times

The New York Times

Silicon Valley’s China Envy: The fascination with China’s ability to build things … These 3 Tips Made All the Difference. A tangy sour cream frosting …

A House of Dynamite Gets It Right—But Here’s the Full Picture

The Equation – Union of Concerned Scientists

Certainly, the Pentagon wants unprecedented control over all messages about its work. … nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered cruise missile. And …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Trump Administration Backs Plan for New Nuclear Plants – The New York Times

The New York Times

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced a plan to build several new nuclear power plants in what it described as an $80 billion deal to use …

$80 billion strategic partnership for U.S. nuclear – Axios

Axios

The big picture: The announcement is also heavy on pushing new reactors to power energy-thirsty AI infrastructure to “win the global AI race.” What we …

U.S. Signs $80 Billion Nuclear Deal With Westinghouse. Cameco and Brookfield Stocks Surge.

Barron’s

Two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at the Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant in Haiyang, Shandong province, China. (Wikipedia Commons). Key Points. About …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Indonesian student wins top prize in IAEA infographic design contest – ANTARA News

ANTARA News

… Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies.” The work highlights the … Nuclear …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Andrew Bolt: What happens when two great bluffers make nuclear threats? – Herald Sun

Herald Sun

Andrew Bolt: What happens when two great bluffers make nuclear threats? Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin this week threatened each other with nuclear …

The Road to a China-America Nuclear War – National Security Journal

National Security Journal

-Without new arms control dialogues, the world risks “Thucydidean” forces of fear and mistrust tragically leading to a war no one wants. The U.S.- …

Russia can’t be defeated, Ambassador Alipov says, points to nuclear weapons – ThePrint

ThePrint

… war as “childish behaviour”. … Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and other Russian officials have echoed the nuclear threats in recent months.

Nuclear War

NEWS

Russia tests nuclear-capable Poseidon super torpedo, Putin says | Reuters

Reuters

Putin, over tea and cakes at a hospital in Moscow with Russian soldiers wounded in the Ukraine war, said the test had taken place on Tuesday. “For the …

Putin Announces Test of Tsunami-Making Nuclear Weapon – The New York Times

The New York Times

… war in Ukraine. Mr. Trump on Monday criticized the Russian president, saying the testing of a nuclear-powered missile was “inappropriate” and …

Is Netflix’s ‘A House Of Dynamite’ Real? Experts Reveal The Truth Behind The Viral Nuclear War Film

Hoover Institution

Experts Reveal The Truth Behind The Viral Nuclear War Film. Hoover Institution fellow Rose Gottemoeller calls a new thriller, A House of Dynamite …

Discussion about this post

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Lloyd A. Williams-Pendergraft

Oct 28, 2025

Today’s Image . . .

This photo, taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, a nuclear-capable Tu-95MS strategic bomber . . .

LLAW’s All Things Nuclear Review Today . . .

Then and now: Remember when Trump continuously bragged that he would end the Russia/Ukraine war in 24 hours as a part of his 2nd campaign lies?

Well, this week Trump told reporters while traveling between Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, “You’ve got to get the war ended. A war that should have taken one week is now in its soon fourth year. That’s what you ought to do instead of testing missiles.”

Trump seems to believe his constant lies and never-ending arrogant potential achievements — that never happen — are forgotten and/ or forgiven by those of us who suffer every day from his disastrous presidency.

He should resign today, before he somehow influences the beginning of WWIII, and if he doesn’t resign immediately, he must be impeached and forced to pay the judicial price for all of his many crimes and felonies, including those that continue to grow every day up to and including this and his previous term — not the least of which is likely treasonous in both — dating back to January 6th, 2021, if not before . . . ~llaw

Today’s Feature Story from LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY is from category. . .

Nuclear War

NEWS

Russia Testing Nuclear Weapons Due to Security Concerns—Kremlin

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Published

Oct 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM EDT

updated

Oct 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM EDT

By Gabe Whisnant

Breaking News Editor

Newsweek is a Trust Project member

Russia’s test of a nuclear-powered cruise missile that it claims can evade any air defense system reflects Moscow’s determination to protect its national security, the Kremlin said Monday, as the United States and European allies increased pressure on President Vladimir Putin to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia was “consistently working to ensure its own security,” calling it a “vital issue” for the country amid what he described as “militaristic sentiment” from Europe.

Why It Matters

The timing of the announcement came days after the Trump administration prepared new sanctions targeting Russia’s vital oil and gas sector, and European governments pledged additional military support for Kyiv.

What To Know

The test of the Burevestnik missile, known by NATO as Skyfall, was first revealed Sunday when Putin appeared in an official video wearing camouflage fatigues to hear a report from Russia’s chief of general staff. According to the Kremlin, the missile traveled 8,700 miles in the test — a claim that could not be independently verified by the Associated Press.

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U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the missile test, saying Putin should focus on peace rather than weapons development.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the Trump administration of shifting its stance on peace talks. He said that after Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska in August, the two sides discussed long-term security guarantees without requiring a cease-fire.

Lavrov also met in Moscow with North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, underscoring growing military cooperation between the two countries. Pyongyang has reportedly sent troops, artillery and missiles to aid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine’s military said it continues to face heavy fighting along the eastern and southern fronts. In the eastern city of Pokrovsk, Russian forces pushed into several neighborhoods but failed to seize control, according to Ukraine’s 7th Rapid Reaction Corps. The unit said it repelled 42 Russian attacks over two days with support from artillery and drone units.

The Russian Defense Ministry said Monday that its air defenses intercepted and destroyed 193 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions, including 34 aimed at Moscow. No damage or casualties were reported.

Two major Moscow airports — Domodedovo and Zhukovsky — briefly closed overnight because of the drone attacks, while several others across the country imposed restrictions. Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 100 Shahed and decoy drones overnight, with 26 reaching their targets.

Ukraine’s private energy company DTEK announced emergency power outages in Kyiv, surrounding areas and the Dnipropetrovsk region as the country braces for renewed Russian strikes heading into winter.

What People Are Saying

Trump told reporters while traveling between Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, “You’ve got to get the war ended. A war that should have taken one week is now in its soon fourth year. That’s what you ought to do instead of testing missiles.”

Lavrov said in an interview with Hungary’s Ultrahang YouTube channel, “Now all they’re talking about is an immediate cease-fire … this is a radical change.”

What Happens Next

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said France will send additional Mirage fighter jets and air defense systems, while the United Kingdom plans to provide more missiles and help produce interceptor drones.

Updates: 10/27/25, 11:47 a.m. ET: This article was updated with new information and remarks.

Updates: 10/27/25, 12:13 p.m. ET: This article was updated with new information and remarks.

This article includes reporting by the Associated Press.

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All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Putin Test Launches Burevestnik Nuclear Cruise Missile: “No One in the World Has This Weapon”

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Russia has confirmed the successful test of its nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable Burevestnik cruise missile, which President Vladimir Putin …

Putin’s New Nuclear Skyfall Missile Sends Europe Scrambling for Cover – YouTube

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House of Dynamite: Pentagon Disputes Accuracy – Variety

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“I’m not a missile defense expert, but I did talk to many missile defense experts who were all … about nuclear threats and attacks. “We live in a very …

Nuclear Power

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Westinghouse, Cameco and Brookfield in $80 billion US nuclear power push | Reuters

Reuters

ALL ABOUT AI BOOM. The agreement follows Trump’s May executive order promoting nuclear energy and targets a 5-gigawatt increase in reactor capacity by …\]

Google, NextEra revive major Iowa nuclear facility as AI energy demand surges – CNBC

CNBC

Google and NextEra Energy are partnering to revive a major nuclear energy facility in Iowa as part of efforts to meet growing energy demands from …

US Signs $80 Billion Pact to Boost Nuclear in AI Drive – Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance

Plants that could be reopened include: NextEra Energy Inc. plans to restart a nuclear power plant in Iowa, primarily to supply Google data centers.

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

Power restored to ZNPP – Nuclear Engineering International

Nuclear Engineering International

Over the past month, the plant has relied on emergency diesel generators for the electricity it needs. ZNPP confirmed that power supply to the plant …

Cyclone ‘Montha’: APSRTC on high alert, emergency measures in place – The Hindu

The Hindu

APSRTC is on high alert for Cyclone Montha, implementing emergency measures to ensure passenger safety and service continuity … nuclear plant to power …

Nuclear War Threats

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Why Putin’s ‘invincible’ nuclear-powered missile is more likely to become a disastrous ‘flying …

New York Post

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s latest threats that Moscow is … War era. “NATO aircraft could intercept it. The problem is that …

The West is still not ready to face up to Putin’s nuclear aggression – The Telegraph

The Telegraph

It is the time for Nato to abandon its passivity and actively deter Russia’s threats.

Navigating Crises With a Lower Bar to Nuclear War – Lawfare

Lawfare

… war—than relying on high-level threats. By lowering the bar for nuclear use, the theory goes, a potential adversary would read the increased risks …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Trump warns Russia: US has world’s greatest nuclear submarine ‘right off their shores’

Fox News

Trump rebukes Putin for nuclear missile test, says he should ‘get the war ended’. President Donald Trump slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin on …

Russia Testing Nuclear Weapons Due to Security Concerns—Kremlin – Newsweek

Newsweek

A war that should have taken one week is now in its soon fourth year. That’s what you ought to do instead of testing missiles.” Lavrov said in an …

What to know about Putin’s ‘Skyfall’ nuclear missile test – The Hill

The Hill

Russia’s successful test of a nuclear-capable cruise missile has raised international concern and condemnation from President Trump … A war that …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Mike Johnson Is Unaware Of The Earth Being Cast Into Total Darkness. Hey, He’s Been Busy.

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Azathoth summoned a massive eruption of the Yellowstone caldera, vaporizing everything in a 300-mile radius and throwing enough ash into the sky …

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Oct 27, 2025

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LLAW’s All Things Nuclear Review Today . . .

I have decided, after a week of consideration, that daily subjective reviews and comments related to the more important daily events is better than looking back at previous often already immaterial issues in this fast-spinning global nuclear world. So the new format will remain basically as before along with with minor changes to the posting of feature stories from one of the categories in Today’s Nuclear World News t.

About today’s story . . .

Trump says the new missile Russia has developed is “inappropriate” in the NBC Article below! What the hell does that mean in this world of nuclear threats, nuclear bombs, and nuclear missiles? I don’t expect Putin to stop laughing. Does Trump actually think such “hard words” as “inappropriate” will cause Putin to “mothball” the new nuclear missile? Whether it is a threat or not I would not underestimate it. . . ~llaw

Today’s Feature Story from LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY is from category. . .

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Trump calls Russia’s missile test ‘inappropriate’ — but is Putin’s nuclear-powered weapon actually a threat?

“The main reason that no one else has tried to build something like this is that it doesn’t really have any use,” one expert told NBC News.

President Vladimir Putin at Russia’s army command center, in a video released Sunday.Kremlin.ru / via Reuters

Oct. 27, 2025, 7:01 AM PDT

By Alexander Smith

Russia says it has successfully tested an experimental weapon that sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie: a nuclear-powered cruise missile with unlimited range, whose low-flying, terrain-hugging and loitering capabilities could evade American missile defenses and drop atomic bombs anywhere on Earth.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that the Burevestnik — meaning “storm petrel” (a type of sea bird) — was “indeed a unique weapon that no other country possesses.”

The development has drawn concern internationally, with President Donald Trump saying Monday it was “inappropriate” to be conducting such tests when Russia should be focusing on peace talks with Ukraine.

• Putin defiant in response to U.S. sanctions

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But many Western experts have questioned the value of the missile, which is code-named “Skyfall” by NATO. Some say it doesn’t do anything Russia can’t do already — while others ridicule it as a waste of money. There are also safety concerns that the mini-reactor that powers the missile could spark a radiation catastrophe.

“The main reason that no one else has tried to build something like this is that it doesn’t really have any use,” Pavel Podvig, a senior researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, told NBC News.

The weapon is instead “largely political,” according to Podvig, who is based in Geneva and runs the Russian Nuclear Forces Project. “It was important for the Kremlin, I think, that this is unique and something no one else has done before.”

“We test missiles all the time,” he said. “They’re not playing games with us, and we’re not playing games with them either.”

The Kremlin said it saw no reason why the test would “strain relations between Moscow and Washington,” already complicated by the shelved Putin-Trump summit.

The test was announced Sunday by Putin and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, Russia’s chief of the general staff, who appeared together in a video wearing camouflage fatigues.

Gerasimov told the president the missile had flown for 15 hours and covered 8,700 miles during a test last Tuesday — a record but not the limit of its range, he said.

Gerasimov spoke of its “assured accuracy against highly protected targets at any range” and said it had “a high capability to evade missile-defense and air-defense systems.”

It uses a reactor — essentially a “miniature nuclear power plant” — to heat air to temperatures of almost 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which powers a ramjet engine that could keep it flying for days, according to a 2019 report by the Nuclear Threat Initiative, an American nonprofit group.

The U.S. and Soviet Union both looked into developing the technology during the Cold War but abandoned it because of the concerns highlighted by experts today.

Those fears were realized in 2019. An offshore explosion in the Russian Arctic killed five scientists and spiked radiation in a nearby city. Experts and later the U.S. government said it was likely a failed Burevestnik test.

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All Things Nuclear

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Russia Downs Drones En Route To Moscow | US: China TO Delay Rare Earths Rules By A Year

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All About Burevestnik: Russia’s Nuclear Cruise Missile To Leave Trump’s Tomahawks In The Dust? … History of Simple Things New 397K views · 6:55 · Go …

How the shutdown threatens to halt Trump’s aggressive nuclear security goals – CNN

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“You have to make sure everything is put away properly.” Bringing them back online likewise takes time. This means that even a potentially short delay …

CSIS Satellite Imagery Analysis Reveals Possible Signs of Renewed Nuclear Activity in Iran

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This declaration formally ends all international oversight of Iran’s nuclear … Three Things Will Determine Iran’s Nuclear Future—Fordow Is Just One of …

Nuclear Power

NEWS

Russia has tested a new nuclear-capable missile, Putin and top general say – ABC News

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MOSCOW — Russia tested a new nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile fit to confound existing defenses, inching closer to deploying it to its …

Russia’s new ‘invincible’ nuclear missile is ready to be deployed, Putin claims

New York Post

3. Little is known about the Burevestnik nuclear–powered missile, which NATO has code-named Skyfall. Russian …

Putin says Russia has tested a new long-range, nuclear-capable missile that can evade defenses

PBS

Russia tested a new nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile fit to confound existing defenses, inching closer to deploying it to its military, …s En Route To Moscow | US: China TO Delay Rare Earths Rules By A Year

YouTube

All About Burevestnik: Russia’s Nuclear Cruise Missile To Leave Trump’s Tomahawks In The Dust? … History of Simple Things New 397K views · 6:55 · Go …

How the shutdown threatens to halt Trump’s aggressive nuclear security goals – CNN

CNN

“You have to make sure everything is put away properly.” Bringing them back online likewise takes time. This means that even a potentially short delay …

CSIS Satellite Imagery Analysis Reveals Possible Signs of Renewed Nuclear Activity in Iran

CSIS

This declaration formally ends all international oversight of Iran’s nuclear … Three Things Will Determine Iran’s Nuclear Future—Fordow Is Just One of …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Trump Rebukes Putin For Russia Nuclear-Powered Missile Test – Time Magazine

Time Magazine

Trump and Medvedev’s War of Words Escalates to Nuclear Threats Amid Ukraine Conflict · China, North Korea, and Russia’s Response to Trump’s ‘Golden …

The threat of nuclear Armageddon – Foreign and security policy | IPS Journal

IPS Journal

… War: the threat of nuclear Armageddon. In Kathryn Bigelow’s film … In their place, we are witnessing the return of open threats of nuclear war …

Trump describes Russia’s new cruise missile test as ‘not appropriate’ – The Guardian

The Guardian

US president says Vladimir Putin should focus on ending war with Ukraine rather than testing missiles. … threats. Soon after, Russia deployed its new …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Russia’s Burevestnik missile: Trump calls Putin test ‘inappropriate’ – NBC News

NBC News

The missile is a so-called second strike weapon, designed to be part of Russia’s response to a nuclear attack. … Exclusive look at NATO’s nuclear war …

Putin says Russia has tested a new long-range, nuclear-capable missile that can evade defenses

PBS

The U.S. and the Soviet Union worked on nuclear-powered missiles during the Cold War, but they eventually shelved the projects, considering them too …

Russia successfully tests nuclear-powered Skyfall missiles – YouTube

YouTube

Russia successfully tests nuclear-powered Skyfall missiles. 1.3K … Putin’s war is on a ‘knife edge’ and will be easily diffused | Former …

Yellowstone Caldera

NEWS

Not only global warming — Next threat to mankind could start underground and America will …

El Diario 24

The Yellowstone Caldera is a complex supervolcano field that spans across Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. The field consists of multiple lava domes, …

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Oct 26, 2025

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LLAW’s All Things Nuclear Concerns and What to do About It . . .

If Burevestnik doomsday winged rocket, nicknamed the “Flying Chernobyl ” which has an “unlimited range”, emits radioactive exhaust, and apparently avoids defense systems such as Trump’s “Golden Dome” is what Putin claims it to be the rest of the “nuclear world” must seriously consider abolishing their own nuclear weapons and beg for “no more wars”.

Meanwhile, while bragging about his new missile, Putin continues to commit International War Crimes by bombing Kyiv residential towers. and, if true, apparently our own maniacal president has declared that we don’t need to declare war or laws to determine and/or prevent such inhumane crimes — we will just “kill” those who bring drugs into the USA according to the following comment . . .

Politically Correct Week in Review

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“I don’t think we’re necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like, dead.” -President of the United States of America

Note: I have not “fact-checked” the above statement claimed to be from Trump. ~llaw

So what can we do? We must rid ourselves of Trump’s sycophants and administration, prosecute and imprison him and the rest of them for their crimes so that we can return to living by our Constitution, lay down our nuclear arms, shake hands with ourselves and the rest of the world, and then “fight” for a united peaceful world.

Today’s Feature Story from LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD TODAY is from category. . .

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

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Vladimir Putin issues chilling WW3 threat to West in boast on new weapon

The dictator boasted he has the ‘highest level’ nuclear forces following tests of the ‘Flying Chernobyl’ missile, named becuase it emits radioactive exhaust from its unshielded reactor

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Will Stewart and Joe Smith News Reporter

09:55, 26 Oct 2025

Vladimir Putin has issued threats to the west as he revealed his new “unstoppable” nuclear missile nicknamed “Flying Chernobyl ” has completed tests.

The Russian dictator boasted he now has the “highest level” nuclear forces in the world and in a chilling World War Three warning, he revealed a “successful” secret flight on October 21 of the Burevestnik doomsday winged rocket which has an “unlimited range”.

Putin discusses the nuclear-powered atomic missile in a visit to a military command post where he received briefings on the Ukrainian frontline from Russia ’s most senior general, Valery Gerasimov, 70.

Meanwhile Russian forces unleashed a barbaric overnight attack on Kyiv hitting residential towers and killing at least three and wounding almost 30, including seven children.

A uniformed Putin made the statement while visiting one of the command posts of the Joint Group of Forces(Image: AP)

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Boasting of nuclear war drills staged last week, in defiance of Donald Trump ’s latest calls for peace, Putin said: “The modernity of our….nuclear deterrent forces, is at the highest level. Well, it would probably be no exaggeration to say that it is at a higher level than all nuclear states.”

He said the test had been undertaken on a missile intended to fly for days at a time and able to counter all current Western defences.

“We’re talking about testing the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile with an unlimited range,” he said. “As far as I understand, the key objectives have now been achieved.”

Gerasimov revealed the Burevestnik – aka Flying Chernobyl – was tested on October 21.

“The missile flew for several hours, covering a distance of 14,000 kilometres [8,700 miles],” he said. And that’s not the limit. It is nuclear-powered.

“And the technical characteristics of the Burevestnik generally allow it to be used with guaranteed accuracy against highly protected targets at any distance. Furthermore, during the flight, the missile performed all the prescribed vertical and horizontal manoeuvres, demonstrating its high capabilities for evading missile and air defence systems.”

RS-24 Yars strategic nuclear missile along a street during the victory day parade in Moscow(Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images)

It flew for 15 hours non stop which is “not the limit”, he told a smirking Putin, 73, who first announced plans for the Burevestnik seven years ago. The previous test in 2022 only lasted two minutes.

He claimed Russian scientists had achieved the impossible following successful weapons tests in the arctic of the new missile, nicknamed “Flying Chernobyl” because it emits radioactive exhaust due to its unshielded or partially shielded reactor, raising ecological and safety concerns.

Putin admitted the Burevestnik is not yet ready for combat use but aimed to frighten the West as he made clear his troops are continuing the war in Ukraine, with a refusal to put an end date on the conflict.

Meanwhile in Kyiv, fires raged in the high-rises as rescuers sought to save residents from the deadly strikes which came as Putin’s envoy in the US, Kiril Dmitriev, sickeningly sought to blame Ukrainian air defences for strikes on its own civilians.

“Sometimes Ukrainian air defence missiles miss their targets,” he claimed, referring to the attack which saw Putin’s drones terrorizing ordinary Ukrainian families in several districts of Kyiv, hitting nine-storey and 16-floor towers.

A total of three were killed and 29 wounded. Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the new attacks, saying: “Every strike by Russia is an attempt to cause as much damage as possible to ordinary life. These are strikes on residential buildings, on our people, on children, on civilian infrastructure.

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2. Nuclear Power
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4. Nuclear War Threats
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All Things Nuclear

NEWS

Inside NATO’s once-secret nuclear exercise – Central Florida Public Media

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Are We There Yet? Spotlight · Growing Bolder · The Florida Roundup · Morning Edition · All Things Considered … nuclear powers.” That came after NATO …

Inside NATO’s once-secret nuclear exercise – NPR

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Inside NATO’s once-secret nuclear exercise. October 25, 20255:00 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. By. Teri Schultz. Inside NATO’s once-secret …

Inside NATO’s once-secret nuclear exercise | South Carolina Public Radio

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Nuclear Power

NEWS

Russia has tested a new nuclear-capable missile, Putin and top general say | AP News

AP News

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia tested a new nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile fit to confound existing defenses, inching closer to deploying it to …

Russia says it successfully tested nuclear–powered missile as Ukraine hit with more deadly strikes

CNN

Russia has successfully tested its nuclear–powered Burevestnik cruise missile and will work towards deploying the weapon, Russian President …

Germany demolishes cooling towers at nuclear power plant – CNN

CNN

The demolition of the plant’s two 528-foot-high cooling towers marks an important step in the dismantling of the Gundremmingen nuclear power …

Nuclear Power Emergencies

NEWS

France’s Macron to host emergency European summit on Ukraine

Global Banking | Finance | Review

(Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that Russia had tested its Burevestnik nuclear–powered cruise missile. Here are some key facts …

Nuclear War Threats

NEWS

Vladimir Putin issues chilling WW3 threat to West in boast on new weapon – The Mirror

The Mirror

Vladimir Putin has issued threats to the west as he revealed his new … Boasting of nuclear war drills staged last week, in defiance of …

Russia’s Strategic Nuclear Power: A Threat to U.S. Security

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Experts from NetEase say Russia’s strategic nuclear power can counter U.S. threats … nuclear deterrence, third world war, military balance. 2025.

Russia Tests “Unlimited‑Range” Burevestnik Nuclear Missile. Here’s What We Know

UNITED24 Media

Nuclear Threats. Share: Facebook; Telegram; Twitter; Reddit; Copy Link … War in Ukraine · Anti-Fake · World · Life in Ukraine · Culture · Business …

Nuclear War

NEWS

Russia tested a new nuclear-capable missile, Putin says – CBS News

CBS News

The announcement comes as part of nuclear messaging from the Kremlin, which has resisted Western pressure for a ceasefire in Ukraine.

Putin claims successful test of long-range nuclear-powered cruise missile amid diplomatic … – CNN

CNN

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky renewed calls for more Patriot missile defense systems hours ahead of a Russian overnight air attack on Kyiv.

Russia says it has tested nuclear-powered Burevestnik missile – BBC

BBC

What’s the significance of US sanctions on Russian oil? The new measures target Moscow’s ability to fund its war machine, the US Treasury said. 3 days …

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