Trump, testing and nuclear weapon
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The Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile will take flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
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.
(Reuters) -Russia is still awaiting U.S. clarification of President Donald Trump's remarks on resuming nuclear testing, TASS state news agency cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying late on Tuesday.
President's vague "on an equal basis" phrasing could mean continuing scienced-based computer and lab testing or resuming live detonations for the first time since 1992.
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.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said he expects US nuclear-weapons testing sought by President Donald Trump to stop short of actual warhead tests for now.
North Korea is one potential villain in a fictional movie about nuclear war on Netflix, Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite.” It is a “Rashomon”-style thriller about the concept of mutually assured destruction that the filmmakers mean to be a wakeup call for nuclear powers.