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What to Know About US Nuclear Weapons as Trump Threatens to Restart Testing

31 October 2025 at 06:55
Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe.

© Los Alamos National Laboratory

The tower for Icecap, a nuclear test that was nearly ready to execute but never happened because of the testing moratorium enacted on Oct. 1, 1992, at the Nevada National Security Site.

Trump’s Call to Resume Nuclear Testing After Decades Revives a Cold War Debate

President Trump explained the order by saying other, unnamed nations were testing their own nuclear weapons, even though no country has tested since 2017.

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A crater left behind after a 100-kiloton thermonuclear bomb test at the Atomic Energy Commission’s Nevada Test Site in July 1962.
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