Southern Nevada’s Congressional delegation is calling on the Trump administration to “reaffirm” the United States’ decadeslong moratorium on explosive nuclear testing, which was concentrated in Nevada amid the Cold War.

Nevada Reps. Steven Horsford, Dina Titus and Susie Lee — all Democrats — wrote in a letter Friday to President Donald Trump and related officials that they oppose “any effort to resume explosive nuclear weapons testing.”

Trump directed the Pentagon last month to restart the country’s nuclear weapons testing “on an equal basis” to countries like Russia and China. However, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Fox News days later that the testing would not include nuclear explosions.

Every other part of a nuclear weapon will be tested instead, he said. Wright also addres

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