NEW YORK: President Donald Trump has announced that the US will start testing nuclear weapons “immediately” in a break from 33 years of the country's self-restraint.

Hours before his meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping in South Korea on Thursday, he said in a cryptic post on Truth Social, “Because of other countries' testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis”.

“That process will begin immediately”, he added.

Trump said that the US had more nuclear weapons than any other country and this was due to "a complete update and renovation of existing weapons”, during his first term.

That was accomplished without any nuclear tests, which scientists say are not necessary anymore because computer simulations can do the

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