According to Sahil Shah, a nuclear risk reduction expert, Trump’s statement could be interpreted as “a political flourish to show resolve; an order to increase testing of nuclear-capable delivery systems; an instruction to expand simulations and subcritical experiments; or, worst of all, authorization of explosive nuclear warhead detonations.”
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