Overview
- President Donald Trump stated on social media that he directed the Pentagon to carry out a nuclear weapons test, a move not reported as executed and flagged by analysts as a blow to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
- The Pugwash Conferences' 63rd world meeting runs November 1–5 in Hiroshima, where Secretary-General Karen Hölberg warned that the nuclear taboo is being broken and pressed for a restart of dialogue.
- Russia’s Foreign Ministry protested Japan’s integrated Self-Defense Forces exercises held October 20–31 near its Far East, calling them provocative and a potential security threat.
- Israeli media reported that U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman Charles Kane visited Israel and reviewed a U.S.-run civil–military coordination center established to monitor a Gaza ceasefire.
- In Okinawa, the U.S. military police conducted their first solo patrol in Naha’s entertainment district as part of measures to prevent further sexual-violence incidents by service members.