Last week, just before his meeting with China's Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump stirred a hornet's nest by saying the US would resume nuclear weapons testing. Five days later, Russian President Vladimir Putin asked his security council to prepare for nuclear tests. The developments have raised concerns of a destabilising nuclear arms race.
Trump has justified his move by claiming that Russia, China and Pakistan were testing nuclear weapons. US energy secretary Chris Wright, however, clarified that the President didn't mean full-scale nuclear tests. But Trump's statement travelled around the world, particularly in Beijing, Moscow and Pyongyang.
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If the US does indeed test weapons, it will trigger a global chain reaction. Russia and China could follow the US and begin their own tests.
At the Kremlin meeting on November 5, Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belo
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