Trump says US will restart nuclear weapons testing
Here is a 174-word summary of the news article: President Donald Trump has announced that he has instructed the Pentagon to immediately start testing nuclear weapons, citing a need to match "other countries [sic] testing programs." However, Trump's claims are inaccurate - Russia, not the US, has the world's largest nuclear stockpile, and no country, except North Korea, is confirmed to have tested nuclear weapons since the 1990s. The last US nuclear test was in 1992, before George H.W. Bush enacted a moratorium at the end of the Cold War. The US is also a signatory to the international treaty banning nuclear weapons tests, though has not ratified it. Trump's comments come just before his anticipated meeting with China's Xi Jinping, which resulted in reduced tariffs on Chinese imports. The announcement appears to upend decades of American policy on nuclear testing.
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