The United States will test its nuclear arsenal to see if it is working properly, vice president JD Vance said Thursday. However, he did not clarify what type of test – whether carriers or nuclear warhead explosions – ordered the head of the White House Donald Trump, AFP reported.
“It’s an important part of America’s national security to make sure that our nuclear arsenal is actually working properly, and that’s part of the testing regime,” US Vice President Vance told reporters at the White House when asked about Trump’s announcement. According to the words of the US vice president, this “speaks for itself”.
Trump ordered the US Defense Department to immediately resume nuclear weapons tests ahead of a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea on Thursday. He made the decision just a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that Russia has successfully tested the new Poseidon supertorpedo, which is nuclear-powered and capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads.
A few days earlier, according to Moscow, Russian forces conducted a successful test of the Burevestnik intercontinental ballistic missile, which can also carry a nuclear warhead. This missile is unique and cannot be shot down by any air defense system, said the head of the Russian army Valery Gerasimov.
Trump called the announcement of the Burevestnik exam inappropriate and He called on Putin to end the war in Ukraine, which Russia has been waging against it for more than three and a half years, instead of testing missiles. The United States last tested a nuclear weapon in 1992, Moscow two years before that, during the Soviet Union’s existence.
