President Donald Trump’s call for the United States to resume a nuclear testing program that was shuttered during the George HW Bush administration would require spending astronomical amounts of money for little benefit, according to experts.
Trump appeared to upend a three-decade moratorium on live nuclear explosions, which began following the last American weapons test in 1992, when he posted to Truth Social on Wednesday that he was ordering the “Department of War” — his administration’s preferred moniker for the Department of Defense — to “immediately” begin testing America’s nuclear stockpile “on an equal basis” to other nuclear-armed nations.
