President Trump’s call to resume nuclear tests was muddied this week when Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the United States would not resume explosive testing, which was last conducted in the 1990s.

“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 told Fox News on Sunday.

That didn’t square with Trump’s own remarks to CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which also aired over the weekend, in which he alleged that other countries were conducting secret underground nuclear testing and said the U.S. would do the same.

“Are you saying that after more than 30 years, the United States is going to start detonating nuclear weapons for testing?” Norah O’Donnell asked Trump.

“I'm saying that we're going

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