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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/
"Testing why? We already know they work."
~Scientists, probably
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.
They suggested digging the Panama Canal using nukes, narrowly avoided detonating nukes on the moon as a show of force but were talked down by Carl Sagan, cattle mutilations that were attributed to close encounters with UAPs were actually government tests to see how much radiation was accumulating in cows downriver/downwind from nuclear testing sites, not to mention all of the literal and figurative fallout from nuclear testing in the Pacific that necessitated relocating entire indigenous populations who could never return to their homes. Nuclear weapons are just a new method of federal enshittification for the sake of being shitty. They're fucking twelve year-olds. All of them. Again, figuratively and literally.
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 🤔
lex luthor ass
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.
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?
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.)
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
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.
Damn I didn't actually know that. Not surprising unfortunately.
Thanks for the link
I guess now we'll know if UFOs are actually attracted to nukes going off! Silver linings!
You don't have to sign your name grandpa we can see your handle at the top of the tweet.
-DIRT J. OWL
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 bombs
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.
Lmao what the hell who is this good for
People who manufacture/test nukes
Nuke testing killed John Wayne at least
Hahahahha
My greatest nightmare coming true!
But… why? The military knows how to build them, they’ve already gotten them to insane payloads, what’s more testing going to do?
Trump learned about carbon dating and wants to set a new atmospheric caesium milestone for everyone to compare to
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!
Fascist spectacle.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
It would be faster than using bulldozers to just apply them to the White House
a nuclear winter is one solution to climate change I guess
what if he builds bleachers so you can buy tickets using bitcoin to watch a nuke test
I cant tell if this is real or not??
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
The archive link goes to truth social. It is real
Make America Glow Again
Having nuclear...
complete update and renovation
What does he even mean by this
"I talked to some very bright people. Not as bright as me but still bright. Of course they could have been prettier, they're all nerds, all locked up in their labs. But they told me, the planet is warming and my ice in my drink, they told me these bright people it's gonna melt. We need to cool the planet. And I talked to a lot of bright people and I thought winter is cold. Why can't we just make winter. And I figured it out but these bright people told me we couldn't but I'm going to make it happen. Nuclear Winter. No ice melting." - Trump probably soon
