‘Extremely Dangerous for Humanity’: Trump Orders Resumption

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‘Extremely Dangerous for Humanity’: Trump Orders Resumption of US Nuclear Weapons Testing

Common Dreams - October 30, 2025

QUOTE: "“By foolishly announcing his intention (to) resume nuclear testing,” said one expert, “Trump will trigger strong public opposition in Nevada, from all U.S. allies, and it could trigger a chain reaction.” - Jake Johnson - Oct 30, 2025

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EXCERPT: "President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing, an announcement made in a frighteningly vague social media post that threatens to shred decades of global progress and heighten tensions with China and Russia.

Beatrice Fihn, former executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, warned that jumpstarting nuke tests would be “incredibly stupid” and pointed to the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which the US signed but never ratified.

“This would have real, devastating impact for Americans,” Fihn said of explosive nuclear testing. “It will harm, kill, and poison people. It has been estimated that past US nuclear testing killed as many Americans as its bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did.” . . . . "

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If the US resumes nuclear weapons testing, this would be extremely dangerous for humanity

Tilman Ruff, The University of Melbourne - October 30, 2025

EXCERPT: "US President Donald Trump has instructed the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing immediately, “on an equal basis” with other countries’ testing programs.

If Trump is referring to the resumption of explosive nuclear testing, this would be an extremely unfortunate, regrettable step by the United States.

It would almost inevitably be followed by tit-for-tat reciprocal announcements by other nuclear-armed states, particularly Russia and China, and cement an accelerating arms race that puts us all in great jeopardy. . . . .

The huge environmental and health problems caused by nuclear testing prompted nations to agree a moratorium on atmospheric testing for a couple of years in the early 1960s. In 1963, the Partial Test Ban Treaty banned nuclear tests in all environments except underground. . . . .

And the US has just completed assembling a new nuclear gravity bomb. . . . . "

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