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The United States last tested a nuclear weapon in 1992.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5580424-trump-directs-pentagon-to-start-testing-nuclear-weapons/
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But… why? The military knows how to build them, they’ve already gotten them to insane payloads, what’s more testing going to do?
Fascist spectacle.
Trump learned about carbon dating and wants to set a new atmospheric caesium milestone for everyone to compare to
Give them an excuse to build more without it looking like a buildup
This might sound like a lib take, but I suspect he might be feeling jealousy of Kim Jong Un. A reporter mentioned North Korea's missile tests yesterday. For over a week, Trump teased the idea that he would meet with Kim during his Asia trip this week. Earlier today, Trump said that plans to meet with Kim had been canceled due to scheduling. I suspect that Kim rejected Trump's offer to meet. Trump also announced today that the US would be building a nuclear-powered submarine for South Korea.
It is my understanding that Kim Jong Un liked Trump as a friend but also knows that Trump has a policy of aggression towards DPRK. Trump is a fake friend to Kim basically. In a press release from Kim Yo Jong, she suggested that Trump was trying to be Kim's friend only to trick DPRK into denuclearization.
July 2024 News commentary article from KCNA in DPRK.
https://hexbear.net/post/3054729
July 2025 Press release by Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK (who is also Kim Jong Un's sister)
https://hexbear.net/post/5690704
Here's the clip where Trump is asked about DPRK's recent missile tests. Western media has reported a claim the DPRK chose to fire the missiles around the same time that Trump's plane landed. I'm doubting this claim, DPRK did perform missiles but I'm doubting the relation with the plane landing, though DPRK does typically performing missile tests in response to South Korea military drills.
Trump tells the reporter "he’s been launching missiles for decades". Then teases that idea of meeting with Kim soon. Trump later said that the meeting is canceled.
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1983447668476260803#m
Small insight here into Trump being quite aware of language use. He knows it's "they" but corrects to "he" for the media presentation of DPRK as a complete dictatorship under the supreme command of Kim. He understands this is incorrect and defaults to the correct usage before changing it for the media.
So has the US - there are regular ICBM (Minuteman III) test launches
Kim: "We now have missiles able to deliver nuclear payload to Unites States"
Trump: "Big Deal! We also have missiles able to deliver nuclear payload to Unites States!"
Because the capitalists have a negative conscience I guess? Like they definitely do have a conscience but then they just use it to optimize for maximum wrongness.
They want to be sure it still actually works.
the alpha drifting is real, nukes stop working
only dprk nukes are fresh and tested