Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Andrey Belousov visit the Mandryk Central Military Clinical Hospital in Moscow on October 29. Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Sputnik/Reuters Moscow —

The Kremlin’s constant nuclear boasts may have finally struck a chord in the White House, with President Donald Trump ordering the resumption of US nuclear weapons tests.

“Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis,” Trump wrote in a post on social media Thursday.

It was not immediately clear whether Trump was referring to a nuclear weapons test, or a test of a nuclear-capable weapons system. His announcement came shortly before a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea,

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