{"id":954,"date":"2025-11-03T07:59:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/?p=954"},"modified":"2025-11-03T07:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:59:02","slug":"us-energy-secretary-clarifies-trumps-nuclear-testing-order-no-explosions-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/us-energy-secretary-clarifies-trumps-nuclear-testing-order-no-explosions-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"US Energy Secretary Clarifies Trump&#8217;s Nuclear Testing Order: No Explosions Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>US Energy Secretary Wright, speaking on a Fox News program on November 2nd, addressed President Trump&#8217;s instruction to resume nuclear weapons testing, stating that the action would involve <strong>subcritical tests<\/strong> which do not trigger a nuclear explosion. Wright denied that the tests would be accompanied by an explosion, saying, &#8220;The tests we&#8217;re talking about right now are <strong>system tests<\/strong>, not nuclear explosions.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wright explained that the purpose of the measure is to develop high-end systems to improve the performance of America&#8217;s nuclear arsenal. When asked if residents near the Nevada Test Site in the western part of the state would see a mushroom cloud, he asserted, &#8220;No, no worries about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Separately, in a CBS television interview that aired on November 2nd, Trump stated, &#8220;Other countries are testing, and the United States will do the same.&#8221; He also noted that he had discussed steps towards &#8220;denuclearization&#8221; with Russian President Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, both of whose countries possess large nuclear arsenals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 30th, Trump suddenly announced that he had instructed the Department of Defense to begin work on testing, citing the need to be on &#8220;equal footing&#8221; with other countries advancing their nuclear programs. On October 31st, he further stated that the US &#8220;will conduct some kind of test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Energy Secretary Wright, speaking on a Fox News program on November 2nd, addressed President Trump&#8217;s instruction to resume nuclear weapons testing, stating that the action would involve subcritical tests which do not trigger a nuclear explosion. Wright denied that the tests would be accompanied by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morelinks.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}