Trump declines to say if US will test nuclear weapons
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Touting new weapons tests, Moscow signals to Washington that it must contend with the Kremlin’s power and negotiate.
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Trump breaks 33-year nuclear testing silence as world braces for dangerous new arms race
Donald Trump announces United States will resume nuclear weapons testing after 33 years to match Russia and China programs, sending shockwaves through Washington.
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Trump instructs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons ‘on an equal basis’ with Russia and China
President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to begin testing US nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, heralding a potentially major shift in decades of US policy at a time of growing tensions between the world’s nuclear-armed superpowers.
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Archbishop Etienne: the ‘simple yet demanding’ work of peacebuidling in a nuclear-armed world
There will be no surviving a nuclear war. “Nuclear war,” said Pope Benedict XVI, “will have no victors—only victims.”
Mr Trump said the contentious issue of the self-governed island did not come up in his talks with Mr Xi on Thursday in South Korea which largely focused on US-China trade tensions. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and does not rule out using force to bring it under Beijing’s fold.
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