Trump Announces U.S. Will Begin Testing Nuclear Weapons ‘Immediately’ – Right Before Meeting With Xi

Trump Announces U.S. Will Begin Testing Nuclear Weapons ‘Immediately’ – Right Before Meeting With Xi
President Donald Trump boasted that the U.S. nuclear arsenal is the largest in the world, with China in “a distant third,” and said the U.S. will begin retesting nuclear weapons “immediately.”

The announcement came right before Trump was set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinpin, for the first meeting between the two since his first administration.

The sit-down, slated to take place in the South Korean port city of Busan just off a tarmac at an airport, comes amid the ongoing trade war between China and the U.S., which accelerated in April, when Trump announced sweeping tariffs on dozens of countries. The president hit Chinese goods particularly hard, and China has responded with retaliatory tariffs.