November 4, 2025

US President Donald Trump has stirred the global pot by saying Pakistan and China are testing nuclear weapons - and the US will not stay behind! Speaking in an interview with CBS News on November 2, 2025, Trump named Russia, China, North Korea, and Pakistan as countries conducting nuclear tests, many secretly underground. "Russia’s testing, and China’s testing, but they don’t talk about it. You know, we’re an open society. We’re different. We talk about it.... We’re gonna test, because they test and others test," Trump declared boldly. He continued, "And certainly, North Korea’s been testing. Pakistan’s been testing." This announcement came just before Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. On social media on October 30, 2025, he confirmed America will resume nuclear tests after a 30-year pause. Trump said, "They don’t go and tell you about it. You don’t necessarily know where they’re testing. They test way under – underground, where people don’t know exactly what’s happening with the test." Russia recently tested a powerful Poseidon nuclear-capable super torpedo, adding more fuel to global tensions. Trump defended his choice to restart nuclear testing: "They (other countries) test, and we don’t test. We have to test. And Russia did make -- a little bit of a threat the other day when they said they were gonna do certain forms of a different level of testing. But Russia tests, China -- and China does test, and we’re gonna test also. You make nuclear weapons, and then you don’t test. How are you gonna do that? How are you gonna know if they work?" Though the US military regularly tests missiles that could carry nuclear warheads, the country hasn’t detonated a nuke since 1992. In the same interview, Trump boasted about his peacemaking skills, claiming to have ended eight wars, including the tough India-Pakistan conflict in May 2025. "And in the meantime, I’ve solved eight wars. I knocked out eight wars. I had eight wars," he said, naming conflicts like Cambodia-Thailand, Kosovo-Serbia, Congo-Rwanda, Israel-Iran, Egypt-Ethiopia, Israel-Hamas, Armenia-Azerbaijan, and the India-Pakistan stand-off. He stated, "It did work with India, and it did work with Pakistan, and it did work with -- 60 per cent of those countries. I can tell you, if it wasn’t for tariffs and trade, I wouldn’t have been able to make the deals." Trump also quoted Pakistan’s Prime Minister saying, "If Donald Trump didn’t get involved, many millions of people would be dead right now. That was a bad war he was ready to start." However, India insists that the ceasefire with Pakistan was reached through direct talks between their military commanders, not due to external influence. Trump’s statements leave the world guessing – is this the dawn of a new arms race, or a strategic bluff? One thing’s for sure: the global heat just turned up a notch!

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