{"id":91965,"date":"2025-11-03T23:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=91965"},"modified":"2025-11-03T23:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:16:59","slug":"trump-claims-pakistan-among-others-conducting-nuclear-tests-defends-us-plan-to-resume-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/trump-claims-pakistan-among-others-conducting-nuclear-tests-defends-us-plan-to-resume-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims Pakistan among others conducting nuclear tests, defends US plan to resume trials"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Delhi, Nov 03: In a provocative new claim that has stirred debate, US President Donald Trump has claimed that Pakistan is among several nations currently conducting nuclear weapons tests, a statement that could have far-reaching global implications.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In an interview aired Sunday on CBS News\u2019 60 Minutes, Trump defended his administration\u2019s controversial decision to resume American nuclear testing after a hiatus of more than three decades. He asserted that countries including Russia, China, North Korea, and Pakistan were already conducting such tests, while the United States had \u201cheld back.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cRussia\u2019s testing and China\u2019s testing, but they don\u2019t talk about it. We\u2019re an open society. We\u2019re different. We talk about it. We have to talk about it because otherwise you people are going to report. They don\u2019t have reporters that are going to be writing about it,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to test because they test and others test. And certainly North Korea\u2019s been testing. Pakistan\u2019s been testing,\u201d he said. Trump also claimed the US does not \u201cnecessarily know\u201d where these \u201cpowerful\u201d nations that are testing nuclear weapons are, but asserted the testing is being done.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey\u2013 they test way under\u2013 underground where people don\u2019t know exactly what\u2019s happening with the test. You feel a little bit of a vibration. They test and we don\u2019t test. We have to test,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s remarks mark the first time a sitting US president has publicly talked about Pakistan continuing nuclear testing, a claim that, if substantiated, could raise serious concerns about Islamabad\u2019s compliance with international nuclear norms. Pakistan last conducted public nuclear detonations in May 1998, following India\u2019s Pokhran-II tests. Islamabad has not yet issued any official response, though its long-standing position maintains that its nuclear programme is purely defensive and governed by strict command-and-control mechanisms.<\/p>\n

The comments have drawn scrutiny from both strategic analysts and international diplomats, who warn that such allegations could strain Washington\u2019s already complex relations with Islamabad and heighten tensions across South Asia.<\/p>\n

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Amid growing questions about the scope of the planned U.S. testing, Energy Secretary Chris Wright clarified in a separate Fox News interview that the administration\u2019s proposal does not involve live nuclear detonations. \u201cThese are system tests \u2014 non-critical explosions,\u201d Wright explained. \u201cThey involve all other parts of the nuclear weapon to make sure they deliver the right geometry and safety functions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the same interview, Trump also touched on tensions in the Indo-Pacific, asserting that Chinese President Xi Jinping would not invade Taiwan \u201cwhile President Trump is president,\u201d citing what he called a clear \u201cunderstanding\u201d between them.<\/p>\n

Reiterating his stance, Trump argued that renewed U.S. testing is \u201cnecessary and appropriate,\u201d insisting, \u201cOther countries are testing. We\u2019re the only one that doesn\u2019t, and I don\u2019t want to be that country.\u201d ( Indian Express)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Delhi, Nov 03: In a provocative new claim that has stirred debate, US President Donald Trump has claimed that Pakistan is among several nations currently conducting nuclear weapons tests, a statement that could have far-reaching global implications. In an interview aired Sunday on CBS News’ 60 Minutes, Trump defended his administration’s controversial decision to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91967,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91965\/revisions\/91967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}