The nuclear weapons of the major powers

Trump stands firm: "Russia and China are testing nuclear weapons"

Donald Trump is adamant that the United States should start testing nuclear weapons. He says this in an interview on the CBS program "60 minutes".

- I don't want us to be the only country that doesn't test, says Trump.

The president recently announced that the tests will resume, but has not since developed what he means. When he is asked on the program about the fact that China and Russia are not conducting tests with actual nuclear weapons, the answer is:

- Russia is testing nuclear weapons and China is testing them too. You just don't know about it.

Minister: The United States will not test nuclear weapons

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright tells Fox News that Trump's plans to test the country's nuclear weapons will not involve testing nuclear weapons.

- These are not nuclear explosions. That's what we call non-critical explosions, he says.

He adds that the tests, which his agency will be responsible for, include "all the other parts of a nuclear weapon to make sure they provide the right geometry and prepare for the nuclear explosion."

The comment is the first clarification from the White House since Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he had ordered the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons tests, which he said should be done on the "same basis" as other countries. Neither China nor Russia have tested nuclear weapons since the 1990s.