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Energy Sec. says weapons tests won't have explosions

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says that the weapons testing President Trump ordered last week will not include nuclear explosions.

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“I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system tests. These are not nuclear explosions. These are what we call noncritical explosions,” Wright said on Fox News’s “The Sunday Briefing.”

“So you’re testing all the other parts of a nuclear weapon to make sure they deliver the appropriate geometry, and they set up the nuclear explosion,” Wright, whose agency oversees testing, continued.

Trump last week said on social media he directed the Defense Department to begin testing U.S. nuclear weapons “on an equal basis,” sparking confusion about the nature of the weapons tes

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