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Trump claims Russia and China are conducting nuclear tests “But Don’t Talk About It”
U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed that Russia and China are carrying out nuclear tests “but don’t talk about it”, without specifying their nature, in an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS News.
“Russia is doing tests, and China is doing tests, but they don’t talk about them,” Trump said. “We’re going to do tests because others are doing tests. North Korea does tests. Pakistan does tests.”
He added that such tests might be taking place underground and unnoticed, suggesting that “you can feel a little vibration, but people don’t really know what’s happening.” Trump insisted that the U.S. must resume its own tests to remain on “equal footing” with other nuclear powers.
Trump’s comments come after he ordered the Pentagon last week to “start testing our nuclear weapons on an equal footing with Russia and China,” prompting widespread international alarm.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright later clarified on Fox News that these would not involve actual nuclear detonations, but rather “non-critical explosions” — simulations testing the geometry and triggering mechanisms of nuclear weapons without a chain reaction.
“These are tests on new systems,” Wright said, “and once again, they are non-nuclear explosions.”
The announcement has reignited global concern amid heightened nuclear rhetoric since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. No recognized nuclear power has conducted a live nuclear test in over three decades, with the sole exception of North Korea, which carried out six tests between 2006 and 2017.
If the United States were to conduct a nuclear explosion, it would constitute a clear violation of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), which Washington has signed but not ratified.
