Experts: Full nuclear weapons tests would backfire on US
November 6, 2025
Resuming full testing of nuclear weapons — as President Donald Trump called for last week — would be unnecessary, costly, undermine nonproliferation efforts, and empower the nation’s adversaries to use their own tests as intimidation, experts told Defense News.
Trump’s unexpected announcement, which came in the form of an Oct. 29 social media post, surprised many nuclear specialists —…