US President Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Defense to resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time in over 30 years.
Nuclear weapons expert Dr Maria Rost Rublee says the move sets an “unnerving” precedent for other nations to commence their own tests, with none doing so since North Korea in 2017.
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