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President Donald Trump said Thursday (October 30, 2025) helium had ordered the Pentagon to commencement atomic weapons investigating connected a level with China and Russia — conscionable minutes earlier opening a precocious stakes acme with Chinese person Xi Jinping.
The determination comes aft Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday (October 29, 2025) that Moscow had successfully tested a nuclear-capable, nuclear-powered underwater drone, successful defiance of Washington’s warnings.
“Because of different countries investigating programs, I person instructed the Department of War to commencement investigating our Nuclear Weapons connected an adjacent basis,” Mr. Trump wrote successful a Truth Social station that specifically referenced Russia and China.
Mr. Trump besides noted the United States has much atomic weapons than immoderate different country, praising his ain efforts to bash “a implicit update and renovation of existing weapons.”
He added that “Russia is second, and China is simply a distant third, but volition beryllium adjacent wrong 5 years.”
Mr. Trump did not supply further details connected the investigating but that the “process volition statesman immediately.”
Mr. Trump is successful South Korea to conscionable with Mr. Xi, arsenic the leaders of the world’s apical 2 economies travel face-to-face for the archetypal clip successful the Republican President’s 2nd term.
