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A senior Pakistani official recently reiterated that Islamabad “ will not be the first to resume nuclear tests", responding to US President Donald Trump’s claim that countries such as Russia, China, North Korea and Pakistan are secretly testing nuclear weapons underground, while the US remains the only major power refraining from doing so. Pakistan, the official reminded CBS News , “was not the first to carry out nuclear tests and will not be the first to resume them."

Trump’s remark briefly revived global attention on one of the most secretive nuclear programmes of the twentieth century, and the question of how Pakistan, a developing country under sanctions through much of the 1980s, managed to acquire the bomb at all.

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