President Donald Trump’s call for the United States to resume testing of nuclear weapons last week has experts scratching their heads.

What did he really mean – exploding a warhead or testing delivery systems? Does he understand how nuclear weapons work? How will US nuclear adversaries react?

And some experts caution that the testing of nuclear warheads – creating actual nuclear explosions – hurts humans and can have lasting consequences for generations.

Few people know the harm nuclear testing can do better than inhabitants of the Marshall Islands, a country of 1,200 islands and atolls in the Pacific, which was a US-administered trust territory of the United Nations from 1947 to 1986.

As it developed its nuclear arsenal post-World War II, the US exploded 67 nuclear bombs there be

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