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

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. Erin D. Dumbacher is Stanton nuclear security senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. President Donald Trump ...

President Donald Trump has announced the US will start testing nuclear weapons in what could be a radical shift in his nation's policy. "Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed ...

President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, his social media site, that he had instructed the Department of War (formerly the Defense Department) to return to “nuclear testing” — although it’s ...

President Trump said on Thursday that the U.S. would begin testing nuclear weapons again for the first time in decades. Trump suggests the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons President Donald ...

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

US President Donald Trump has said that the country will resume nuclear weapons testing after a decades-long ban. But researchers speaking to New Scientist say there is no scientific need for such ...

President Donald Trump’s call for the United States to resume testing of nuclear weapons last week has experts scratching their heads. What did he really mean – exploding a warhead or testing delivery ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — President Donald Trump’s comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to ...

President Trump's comments about restarting weapons tests are not likely to lead to mushroom-cloud explosions over the New Mexico desert or seismic shaking underground in Nevada, according to the ...