President Trump's post announcing the U.S. would resume nuclear testing featured some inaccuracies, and introduced quite a bit of uncertainty.

Why it matters: Nuclear rhetoric is closely scrutinized — by governments, by defense contractors, by outside analysts — and can have unintended consequences. Trump's Truth Social shocker will have generated significant debate in Moscow and Beijing over the past 24 hours.

Reality check: Trump began his announcement by claiming the U.S. has more nukes than any other country. Russia, in fact, has the largest stockpile. • He also suggested the U.S. has completed its modernization efforts. They are, in fact, very much still in progress. • The president then claimed China would catch up to the U.S. "within five years." Experts doubt that. While Beij

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