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U.S. discussed conducting its first nuclear test in decades, Washington Post reports

Published 05/23/2020, 12:54 AM
Updated 05/23/2020, 09:10 AM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Trump holds a news conference at the White House in Washington

(Reuters) - The Trump administration discussed last week whether to conduct its first nuclear test explosion since 1992, the Washington Post reported late on Friday, citing a senior official and two former officials familiar with the matter.

The topic surfaced at a meeting of senior officials representing the top national security agencies after accusations from the administration that Russia and China are conducting low-yield nuclear tests, the Washington Post said https://wapo.st/2Xljjro.

The meeting, however, did not conclude with any agreement to conduct a nuclear test. A decision was ultimately made to take other measures in response to threats posed by Russia and China and avoid a resumption of testing, the report added.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Trump holds a news conference at the White House in Washington

U.S. officials could not be reached immediately for a comment.

Latest comments

Yes nuke the virus
Great! Vote for Trump!
why not *******the virus up..radiated it
Its impossible to have a possitive outcome on nuclear war or nuclear testing for both sides. Its like choosing to destroy yourself and your enemy when you should find other means.
sad sad sad!
Rather than running around in circles, why dont Your (geniuses) develop cold fusion ??
We have enough nukes to nuke all.
You know how China builds things out of plaster covered cardboard made to look like concrete.. and it lasts just long enough to sell it to a “customer”? Well, that’s pretty representative of how their whole culture works. The top two national sports are cutting in line and swindling each other. They have honed these two skills to a fine art.
Thats one way to ***the virus.. nuclear winter. Also this really makes me wonder if we arent headed into ww3 with tha whole world against china and then we just wide out all debt owed to them and bankrupt their country? Thay would probably put us in the same boat with all the peinting we are doing and our economy could atabilize? Only question the is the jobs..
The new WW3 are cyber and bio- weapon... there are no winners in nuclear...
Why not we end the history of all human beings with nuclear weapon? Then no racisim exists.
I'll agree to ending the human race if you'll go first
"A decision was ultimately made to take other measures in response to threats posed by Russia and China and avoid a resumption of testing, the report added." So they didn't choose to do it. Got it.
have to make sure Obama didn't disable the detonators...
Jon I think you have a high horse to dismount. It's humor, light humor at that, unlike the vitriol that is spewed daily to our current President.
We should test ours make sure they all work, don't want to look like fools when the real war starts.
A nuke war wipes all of us out.
they test them in a lab
exactly what happened after the the great depression is going on again. economy fell, government made stimulus bill, stimulus bill didn't get economy back going, went to war...I'd say we have less than 5 years till we're at war again. with who depends on who the CIA pays to attack us
Our worst fear since this all began!  Only 5 months to go.
Probably prudent considering the insolence and carelessness of Beijing recently. As their own people turn on the communist regime, they will likely turn to the last resort for a failing dictatorship which is war.
Frog in the well, u will surprise how advance is China now compared to America.
 Why don't we put it up to a vote in China to see if the CCP is so popular? Oh right, the CCP bans those - guess they themselves are not as confident as you are of their approval rating.
Sai, China is very advanced, it's people and culture are not. Advanced thievery, advanced plague spreading, advanced internet theft, advanced business swindling, advanced hive has advanced bugs that chitter click and clack.
UN treaty doesnt allow any country to do it. UN is useless. The treaty is useless if everybody does it.
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