US President Donald Trump on Thursday has announced that the United States will “immediately begin" testing nuclear weapons, citing similar actions by China and Russia. The statement, made on his social media platform Truth Social, comes just hours before his high-profile summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea.

US must match nuclear testing by China, Russia

Trump said that, although he “hated" the destructive nature of nuclear weapons, he felt compelled to expand and maintain them because of growing competition from Russia and China. He said that since other countries were already conducting nuclear tests, he had instructed the US Department of Defense to begin nuclear testing “immediately" so that the US would not fall behind.

In his post, Trump wrote, “The Unit

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