{"id":22198,"date":"2025-10-30T04:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22198\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T04:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:21:12","slug":"president-trump-orders-nuclear-weapons-testing-to-begin-immediately-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22198\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump orders nuclear weapons testing \u2018to begin immediately\u2019 \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump posted on social media Wednesday that he has instructed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Department of War<\/a> to start testing nuclear weapons \u201cimmediately.\u201d The U.S. has observed a voluntary moratorium on nuclear explosive testing since 1992.<\/p>\n<p>There was no indication that the U.S. would start detonating warheads, and the military already regularly tests its missiles and other equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The president suggested changes were necessary because other countries were\u00a0testing their weapons. Russia has announced\u00a0multiple tests\u00a0recently.<\/p>\n<p>Trump wrote on social media while en route to Busan that the Pentagon will \u201cstart testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis\u201d and \u201cthat process will begin immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country. This was accomplished, including a complete update and renovation of existing weapons, during my First Term in office,&#8221; he wrote on Truth Social. &#8220;Because of the tremendous destructive power, I HATED to do it, but had no choice! Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years. Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately respond to questions seeking more details.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump posted on social media Wednesday that he has instructed the Department of War to start testing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,9,11,10,655],"class_list":{"0":"post-22198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-trump-administration"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}