Trump orders immediate resumption of U.S. nuclear weapons testing to match global programs, citing Russia and China's advancing capabilities in major policy shift.

President Trump, during an interview that aired Sunday night on CBS's "60 Minutes," said: NORAH O'DONNELL: Less than an hour before your meeting with President Xi, you posted on social media that you instructed the,

A Pakistani official told CBS News that the country "will not be the first to resume nuclear tests" in response to President Trump's assertion in an interview with 60 Minutes that the country has conducted nuclear weapons tests, along with Russia and China.

Energy Secretary says administration will tests nuclear weapons ‘systems’ without detonating devices — for now

While it remains unclear exactly what Trump meant by "testing our nuclear weapons," we got expert opinions on the timelines and processes required to restart live detonations.

Donald Trump's recent statement fuels social media speculation about a string of earthquakes in Pakistan between April and May 2025.

Russia is testing nuclear weapons, and China is testing them too, you just don’t know about it,” Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday.

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Experts say reviving the long-dormant testing program could take at least a year and would cost astronomical amounts for each test

Dmitri S. Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, told Russian news agencies that recent drone and missile tests were not nuclear weapons tests.

Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s decision to boast about new tests of nuclear-capable weapons systems this week is his latest strategic effort designed to dissuade Western support for Ukraine. Putin called the 9M730 Burevestnik missile,