"The announcement sparked a mixture of alarm and confusion among the negotiating team that had traveled with the Chinese leader to the South Korean city, as well as in Beijing, Moscow, and even Washington. The U.S. president hinted that the world's leading power might once again detonate atomic bombs a practice only North Korea has carried out this century just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted of successfully testing a nuclear-powered underwater drone capable of devastating entire cities."
"Trump's post on October 30 on Truth Social the social network he owns while en route to his meeting with Xi was ambiguous and contained numerous falsehoods. We have more nuclear weapons than anybody, the message began, even though Russia possesses more that the United States. Trump also falsely claimed China will be even within five years. The Republican argued that during his first term there had been a complete update and renovation of U.S. atomic bombs,"
President Trump announced an order for the U.S. Department of Defense to immediately resume nuclear weapons tests minutes before meeting Xi Jinping in Busan. The announcement provoked alarm and confusion among negotiators and officials in Beijing, Moscow, and Washington and came shortly after President Putin touted a nuclear-powered underwater drone. The timing coincides with the impending expiry of the last U.S.-Russia arms-limiting treaty. The president's post contained factual inaccuracies about relative arsenals and claimed a completed overhaul of U.S. bombs, while the Pentagon's broad modernization program predates his term and carries a massive price tag. Significant ambiguity remains about whether the order referred to detonations or delivery-system tests.
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