Trump is right to restart nuclear weapons tests

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday, “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our nuclear weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately.”

Russia denies it is engaged in testing. But to trust the Kremlin to keep to its nuclear weapons treaty obligations is willful idiocy.

In recent years, Russia has repeatedly violated its international commitments. It has broken promises made under the Chemical Weapons Convention and systematically breached the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. As first reported by the Washington Examiner, Moscow is also violating the Outer Space Treaty, which bans putting nuclear weapons in orbit. Most recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to intimidate Trump over new sanctions over the war in Ukraine by

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