Trump Official Signals No US Nuclear Test Blasts Planned For Now

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said he expects US nuclear-weapons testing sought by President Donald Trump to stop short of actual warhead tests for now.

“I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system tests,” Duffy said on Fox News’ The Sunday Briefing. “These are not nuclear explosions. These are what we call noncritical explosions.”

Such tests involve “all the other parts of a nuclear weapon to make sure they deliver the appropriate geometry and they set up the nuclear explosion,” he said.

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright

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Trump said last week that he’s instructing the Pentagon to start testing US ...