Trump’s Nuclear Testing Bravado isn’t strategy, It’s Global bullying

By Dr. Arun Mitra

On October 29, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that ‘Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War [the Pentagon] to start testing our nuclear weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately. This statement is not only disturbing but also extremely dangerous’. The last explosive nuclear weapon test carried out by the United States was back in 1992. Other than North Korea, no country has tested nuclear weapons since the late 1990s.

At a time when large parts of the world are already engulfed in direct or proxy wars—and when many regions face devastating civil conflicts leading to mass killings, starvation, and human suffering—such an order thr

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