Trump’s Push to Resume Nuclear Weapons Testing Rests on Falsehoods

This past week, President Donald Trump called on the Department of Defense (DOD) to restart nuclear weapons testing “immediately,” citing false claims about other countries’ nuclear arsenals and testing.

In a Truth Social post on Wednesday and an interview that aired on Sunday, Trump was vague regarding the extent of the future nuclear weapons testing, including whether he would push for actual nuclear explosions.

Trump claimed in his social media post that the U.S. has the most nuclear weapons out of every country in the world, followed by Russia and China. This is false — Russia actually has the most nuclear weapons . Trump also claimed that China would reach parity with the U.S. “within 5 years,” although nuclear arms experts doubt that China will come anywhere close to possess