“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity.” ~llaw
Nov 03, 2025
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Trump declines to say whether he plans to resume nuclear tests
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
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.
Madhani covers the White House for The Associated Press. He is based in Washington.
TODAY’s LLAW;s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS
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