{"id":2874,"date":"2025-11-03T00:32:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2025-11-03T00:32:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:32:28","slug":"will-trump-spark-a-new-nuclear-arms-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=2874","title":{"rendered":"Will Trump Spark a New Nuclear Arms Race?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s vaguely worded promise last week to start testing the country\u2019s nuclear weapons on an \u201cequal basis\u201d with Russia and China has sparked fears that the United States will fuel a renewed nuclear arms race.<\/p>\n

According to Sahil Shah, a nuclear risk reduction expert, Trump\u2019s statement could be interpreted as \u201ca political flourish to show resolve; an order to increase testing of nuclear-capable delivery systems; an instruction to expand simulations and subcritical experiments; or, worst of all, authorization of explosive nuclear warhead detonations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s vaguely worded promise last week to start testing the country\u2019s nuclear weapons on an \u201cequal basis\u201d with Russia and China has sparked fears that the United States will fuel a renewed nuclear arms race.<\/p>\n

According to Sahil Shah, a nuclear risk reduction expert, Trump\u2019s statement could be interpreted as \u201ca political flourish to show resolve; an order to increase testing of nuclear-capable delivery systems; an instruction to expand simulations and subcritical experiments; or, worst of all, authorization of explosive nuclear warhead detonations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first three are serious policy choices that merit debate,\u201d Shah writes<\/a>. \u201cThe last would mark an epochal reversal of U.S. policy and international norms.\u201d<\/p>\n

As analysts debate what Trump\u2019s latest moves could mean, we\u2019ve rounded up some of our best coverage of how the current U.S. administration could reshape the global nuclear landscape.<\/p>\n

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A massive mushroom cloud of smoke and debris rises around a giant plume of flames. Huge waves ripple out in a circle from the point of impact.<\/figcaption>

A nuclear explosion is seen in Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia in 1971.Photo by AFP<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Trump\u2019s Vagueness Over Nuclear Testing Could Fuel an Arms Race<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

It\u2019s unclear whether his statement refers to warhead detonations, Sahil Shah writes.<\/p>\n

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A deactivated Titan II nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile stands in a silo at the Titan Missile Museum in Green Valley, Arizona, on May 12, 2015.<\/figcaption>

A deactivated Titan II nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile stands in a silo at the Titan Missile Museum in Green Valley, Arizona, on May 12, 2015.Brendan Smialowski\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

America\u2019s Latest Problem: A Three-Way Nuclear Race<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

New Russian and Chinese weapons make Washington\u2019s nuclear command structure vulnerable to attack, Eric S. Edelman writes.<\/p>\n


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Crows fly around the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 5.Richard A. Brooks\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Why the Nuclear Taboo Is Stronger Than Ever<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

Fears of proliferation and the crumbling of an earlier nuclear order could actually be accelerating international norm-building, Charli Carpenter writes.<\/p>\n


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The devastated landscape of Hiroshima in 1948, three years after the U.S. bombing laid waste to the city.AFP via Getty Images<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

An Unreliable America Means More Countries Want the Bomb<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

Without credible U.S. security guarantees, nuclear proliferation is likely to increase rapidly across Europe and Asia, Debak Das and Rachel A. Epstein write.<\/p>\n

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Crowds of people gather for an anti-nuclear demonstration in New York’s Central Park on June 12, 1982.<\/figcaption>

Crowds of people gather for an anti-nuclear demonstration in New York\u2019s Central Park on June 12, 1982.Roy Morsch\/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

How to Fix the Cracks in the Nuclear Dam<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

The crisis in the Middle East shows why the world must repair Trump\u2019s damage to the nonproliferation landscape, Adam Thomson writes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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