Overview
- Energy Secretary Chris Wright said planned work will be system checks with “noncritical” blasts and no nuclear detonations.
- Trump, in a 60 Minutes interview, alleged Russia, China, North Korea and Pakistan are secretly conducting underground tests as he justified restarting U.S. testing.
- China’s foreign ministry rejected the allegation and urged Washington to uphold the global moratorium and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty’s norms.
- Russia said it has not conducted nuclear explosions and warned it would respond if the United States breaks the de facto test ban.
- The United States has not carried out an explosive nuclear test since 1992, relying on simulations and subcritical experiments despite not having ratified the CTBT.