WASHINGTON (AN) — In a dramatic and destabilizing policy shift, U.S. President Donald Trump, moments before meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping, bypassed the Pentagon to order the "Department of War" to resume nuclear weapons testing.
The directive, which used the stronger language of an "instruction" rather than a mere threat, ends a 33-year-old voluntary U.S. moratorium and undermines decades of international arms control architecture.
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