U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., is introducing legislation today to prevent nuclear weapons testing in the United States just after President Donald Trump said testing would resume for the first time in decades.

Trump said the change in posture was due to “other countries testing programs,” naming Russia and China in a Truth Social post. However, Vice Adm. Richard Correll, Trump’s pick to lead United States Strategic Command, whose purview includes nuclear weapons, said Thursday that neither country had conducted “a nuclear explosive test."

The president told reporters that “we have test sites” in response to a question about where this testing would take place. The most recent U.S. nuclear weapons test, which was conducted underground, was performed in 1992 at what is now the Nevada Natio

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