Just as nuclear war, in all its sheer insanity, has returned to Hollywood and public attention, the leaders of the world’s two atomic superpowers seem to be doing their best to make the jitters worse.

First, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who’s been breaking nuclear taboos for at least three years, boasted about a (new-ish) torpedo drone and a nuclear-powered (and possibly nuclear-armed) cruise missile. Apparently in response, President Donald Trump then posted on social media that the U.S. would “immediately” start “testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.”

Leave aside what “on an equal basis” might mean and just take Trump’s post literally. He seems to want to start detonating nuclear warheads again — as one of his former national security advisers recommended last year.

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