{"id":258458,"date":"2025-11-03T08:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/258458\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T08:47:09","slug":"pakistan-conducting-nuclear-tests-donald-trump-makes-big-claim-justifies-us-decision-to-resume-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/258458\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pakistan conducting nuclear tests&#8217;: Donald Trump makes big claim; justifies US&#8217; decision to resume testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/untitled-design.jpg\" alt=\"'Pakistan conducting nuclear tests': Donald Trump makes big claim; justifies US' decision to resume testing\" title=\"File photo: US President Donald Trump  and Pakistan PM Shahbaz Sharif\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>File photo: US President Donald Trump  and Pakistan PM Shahbaz Sharif US President Donald Trump has claimed that Pakistan is among several countries actively testing nuclear weapons, asserting that this justifies his administration\u2019s decision to resume America\u2019s own nuclear testing after more than 30 years.In an interview with CBS News\u2019 60 Minutes on Sunday, Trump said that Russia, China, North Korea and Pakistan were all conducting tests while the United States had refrained from doing so. <\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Issues Naval Warning as Its War Games Overlap with India\u2019s Military Drills<\/p>\n<p> \u201cRussia\u2019s testing and China\u2019s testing, but they don\u2019t talk about it. We\u2019re an open society. We\u2019re different. We talk about it because otherwise you people are going to report. They don\u2019t have reporters that are going to be writing about it,\u201d he said.\u201cWe\u2019re going to test because they test and others test. And certainly North Korea\u2019s been testing. Pakistan\u2019s been testing,\u201d Trump added.When questioned about his decision to resume nuclear detonations, Trump argued that such testing was necessary to ensure the reliability of US weapons systems, citing recent trials of advanced nuclear-capable systems by Russia.\u201cYou have to see how they work&#8230; We\u2019re the only country that doesn\u2019t test. And I don\u2019t want to be the only country that doesn\u2019t test,\u201d he said.Confusion surrounded Trump\u2019s announcement, first made on social media minutes before his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea. The last US nuclear explosion occurred in 1992. While no country other than North Korea is known to have conducted a detonation for decades, Trump maintained that \u201cthey test way underground where people don\u2019t know exactly what\u2019s happening.\u201dUS energy secretary Chris Wright later clarified that current discussions referred to \u201cnon-critical\u201d system tests, not full nuclear explosions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File photo: US President Donald Trump and Pakistan PM Shahbaz Sharif US President Donald Trump has claimed that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,119971,119974,119976,119969,75,119973,119977,119968,119972,348,119970,119975],"class_list":["post-258458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cbs-news-60-minutes","tag-china-nuclear-tests","tag-chris-wright-doe","tag-donald-trump-nuclear-tests","tag-entertainment","tag-north-korea-nuclear-testing","tag-nuclear-test-announcement","tag-pakistan-nuclear-testing","tag-russia-nuclear-capability","tag-tv","tag-us-resuming-nuclear-tests","tag-us-weapons-systems-reliability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}