Trump orders US nuclear weapons testing for the first time in 30 years

“Now is the right time”, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Washington shortly after a meeting with China President Xi Jinping in South Korea.

Trump made the announcement for the first time in social media before his meeting with Xi, stressing that “concerned others”.

Because of other countries' testing programmes, I have instructed the War Department to start testing our nuclear weapons on an equal basis,”, he said in a post on the Social Truth. “This process will start immediately. ”

The surprising announcement of Trump comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this week that Moscow tested a new underwater threat of atomic energy and capable of filling nuclear bombs and a new nuclear power cruiser.

Putin reported no evidence of Russia's nuclear weapons, whose latest test took place in 1990.

Also, before the U.S. leader's trip to South Korea, the final part of his Asian tour, North Korea announced the testing of missiles of what it claimed to be a rocket gun “ds-representing”.

Last week, genus leader Kim Jong discovered some of his army's newest weapons, including what seemed to be a short-range ballistic system equipped with hypersonic slide vehicles./Periscopi/