{"id":89804,"date":"2025-10-30T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=89804"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:54:09","slug":"president-trump-ends-30-year-moratorium-orders-us-nuclear-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/president-trump-ends-30-year-moratorium-orders-us-nuclear-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump ends 30-year moratorium, orders US nuclear tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: US President <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/donald-trump-claims-ending-pak-afghan-war-very-easy-for-him\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> has announced that the United States will resume nuclear weapons testing for the first time since 1992, in a move needed to keep pace with rival powers Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>The directive came just before he met with Chinese<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/donald-trump-claims-ending-pak-afghan-war-very-easy-for-him\/\"> President Xi Jinping<\/a> in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post, Trump said, \u201cIn light of the scrutiny of other countries\u2019 programs, I have directed the Department of War to begin testing our own nuclear weapons on a par with the rest of the world.\u201d He stressed that the United States currently has the world\u2019s largest nuclear arsenal, followed by Russia in second place, with China \u201ca close third.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president acknowledged the \u201ctremendous destructive power\u201d of nuclear weapons but argued that the U.S. arsenal must be modernized and modernized to maintain strategic parity. He also warned that China\u2019s nuclear program could rival the United States\u2019 within five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will resume nuclear weapons testing for the first time since 1992, in a move needed to keep pace with rival powers Russia and China. The directive came just before he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea. In a social media post, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":89810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[528,636,184,32023],"class_list":["post-89804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-president-xi-jinping","tag-united-states","tag-donald-trump","tag-us-nuclear-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89811,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89804\/revisions\/89811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}