25/05/2020
Donald Trump SHOCKS by planning nuclear weapons test At a meeting in the White House on May 15, national security officials debated whether the first test explosion since 1992 would pressure Russia and China into signing up to a new arms-control agreement.
According to The Washington Post, a senior official in the Trump administration argued that showing Moscow and Beijing that the US was capable of carrying out a “rapid test” would be a powerful negotiating tool.
The meeting did not end in agreement to carry out a test but the idea is “very much an ongoing conversation.”
A congressional aide said to the Guardian: “There are still some professionals in the room who told them this is a terrible idea, thank God.”
