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Trump has ordered the Department of War to start testing Nuclear Weapons immediately (hexbear.net)
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https://archive.is/Wzo1x

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The United States last tested a nuclear weapon in 1992.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-asks-pentagon-immediately-start-testing-us-nuclear-weapons-2025-10-30/

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5580424-trump-directs-pentagon-to-start-testing-nuclear-weapons/

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[–] TheSovietOnion@hexbear.net 93 points 5 days ago (3 children)

They ended up poisoning all of California after some billionaire suggested two birds with one stone: fracking with nukes. 35% of the country's population died of radiation exposure in their drinking water. The democrats made a catchy tune against it, but it turns out the composer ripped the melody straight off Wagner.

  • history books from 2035, probably (translated from Chinese)
[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 40 points 5 days ago (2 children)

two birds with one stone: fracking with nukes

IIRC, USSR tested an idea about excavation with nukes and concluded that it is impractical and requires too much decontamination work afterward.

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 42 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

why think so small, they should nuke san andreas, just to see if it chickens out or got game

*or yellowstone, now that the show has ended and it's not needed anymore 🤔

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 23 points 5 days ago

lex luthor ass

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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 84 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah America's gotta test nukes because otherwise Russia and China would use nukes on unarmed civilians like they did in the past...wait what, that was Amerikkka?

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 63 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The only country to nuke another is America (unless you count France testing nukes in the middle of the desert in occupied Algeria, which is a different category of thing. not good, but it's not on a city.)

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 57 points 5 days ago (2 children)

There were also nuke tests on first nations land in Australia where the people were moved and told they'd get new stuff(they didn't)

The song Beds Are Burning is about it

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 46 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There were also communities that weren't told about it. I remember about ten years back now there was an ACMI exhibit where an elder retold the story of seeing a mushroom cloud on the horizon. They recreated the moment in VR.

Found it: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-07/aboriginal-mans-story-of-nuclear-bomb-survival-told-in-vr/7913874

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 35 points 5 days ago

Damn I didn't actually know that. Not surprising unfortunately.

Thanks for the link

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 62 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

33 years of technology has advanced since last testing they honestly must have really shit data on it by now. I don't think this is a Trump thing, I think the US just knows it's seriously fucking behind.

Do any of the people that were alive for the last tests even work in the government or defence industries anymore? Doubt it. The skills and experiences of the people that were last involved are long gone. They might have simulations but they lack real tangible experience.

The world is going multipolar, this means multiple threats and a need for deterrence. This means demonstrating you have a working one in the first place, and it also means testing in order to see how you would defend against and fight a nuclear war in a multipolar world.

I think this would've been ordered by a dem president too under the circumstances with Ukraine going badly and the US showing no signs of being able to confront China. The dem president would've done it quietly though while Trump sees the opportunity to please the hogs by being loud and oafish about it.

Reestablishment of these tests is a sign the US very much recognises its power is weakening.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 36 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Turns out not wanting to invest in education or training or passing skills down to the next generations leaves your country behind the ones that do. Oopsie poopsie.

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[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 38 points 5 days ago

I'm sure that Russia and China are already preparing to conduct their own tests immediately after USA to remind America that they also have nukes.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 4 days ago

33 years of technology has advanced since last testing they honestly must have really shit data on it by now.

They started to retire Minutement ICBM when their replacement is nowhere in sight, which means they are probably literally crumbling. Air force recently masturbated itself about their "new generation" nuclear gravity bomb which is basically 1945 nuclear bomb but stronger. Navy is in shambles. Trump lie about their nuclear arsenal being refurbished.

[–] Aradino@hexbear.net 65 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I guess now we'll know if UFOs are actually attracted to nukes going off! Silver linings!

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 60 points 5 days ago

I already have a nuclear arsenal large enough to destroy the world several times over. But the rest of the world is making ME build more bombstrump-kaneki nuke

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 63 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

You don't have to sign your name grandpa we can see your handle at the top of the tweet.

-DIRT J. OWL

[–] jack@hexbear.net 34 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Thank you for your attention to my sink!

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 30 points 5 days ago

*stink

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[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 56 points 5 days ago

Going after the disarmament movement is like the flag burning thing. It's crumbs for the oldheads to get them focused on something else. Now you're going to see a lot of social media chuds become experts on why setting off nukes constantly is cool and good despite them not giving a fuck 10 mins ago. Plus, they get to do more contracting graft.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 55 points 5 days ago (6 children)

jokerfication

Lmao what the hell who is this good for

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 42 points 5 days ago (1 children)

People who manufacture/test nukes

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 34 points 5 days ago

Nuke testing killed John Wayne at least

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[–] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 40 points 4 days ago

nuke mccrucified nuke

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 54 points 5 days ago

Hahahahha

My greatest nightmare coming true!

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 43 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Step 1: fire the competent nuclear scientists under DOGE cuts

Step 2: fire up some nuclear testing

Step 3: ???

Trump hears the call of the grave, he sees the reaper in the corner of his eyes and he wants to drag as many people down with him as possible so he does not cross the Styx alone.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago

I hope step 3 is: find out most of the nuclear stockpile is trash

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 53 points 5 days ago (6 children)

But… why? The military knows how to build them, they’ve already gotten them to insane payloads, what’s more testing going to do?

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 44 points 5 days ago

Fascist spectacle.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 45 points 5 days ago

Trump learned about carbon dating and wants to set a new atmospheric caesium milestone for everyone to compare to

trump-drenched They called it radiocarbon date-ing, I said, I don't know what that means why don't we call it Trump Dating. Melania doesn't like me to talk about that very much!

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 38 points 5 days ago

Give them an excuse to build more without it looking like a buildup

[–] dead@hexbear.net 36 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

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

It is true that Trump, when he was president, tried to reflect the special personal relations between the heads of states in the relations between states, but he did not bring about any substantial positive change.

He that puts on a public gown must put off a private person. The foreign policy of a state and personal feelings must be strictly distinguished.

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

I do not want to deny the fact that the personal relationship between the head of our state and the present U.S. president is not bad.

However, if the personal relations between the top leaders of the DPRK and the U.S. are to serve the purpose of denuclearization, it can be interpreted as nothing but a mockery of the other party.

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

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 26 points 5 days ago

They’ve been—he’s been launching missiles for decades

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.

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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They want to be sure it still actually works.

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[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 42 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Are we at least not doing above-ground testing and burying it to minimize the contamination of various elements which taint scientific study for no good reason? Or are we back to big spectacular above-ground, air-burst or at sea-level type testing because it looks cooler. Oh who am I kidding, Trump will want it above-ground and probably in the Pacific or something to saber rattle at China with and will say it was the biggest and bestest nukulur explosion ever.

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[–] abc@hexbear.net 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

he just watched Oppenheimer on HBO oooaaaaaaauhhh

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[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 36 points 5 days ago

It would be faster than using bulldozers to just apply them to the White House

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

what if he builds bleachers so you can buy tickets using bitcoin to watch a nuke test

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[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 32 points 5 days ago

a nuclear winter is one solution to climate change I guess

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

complete update and renovation

What does he even mean by this

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Gotta put chatgpt in the nukes

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Great catch - yes, I did just launch the missiles toward Moscow, Berlin and even Tehran!

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[–] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 27 points 5 days ago

Make America Glow Again

[–] Corridor8031@lemmy.ml 27 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I cant tell if this is real or not??

[–] dead@hexbear.net 39 points 5 days ago

It is real. I made the truthsocial link into an archived URL so people didn't have to visit truthsocial. Visit truthsocial at your own risk. It's Trump's website.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115460423936412555

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 23 points 5 days ago

Having nuclear...

[–] Bishop_Owl@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago

He desperately wants it to be the 80s again

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