{"id":224264,"date":"2025-10-30T06:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/trump-directs-pentagon-to-start-testing-nuclear-weapons"},"modified":"2025-10-30T06:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:15:01","slug":"trump-directs-pentagon-to-start-testing-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/trump-directs-pentagon-to-start-testing-nuclear-weapons","title":{"rendered":"Trump directs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/trump-directs-pentagon-to-start-testing-nuclear-weapons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Trump said on Wednesday that he has instructed the Defense Department (DOD) to immediately begin testing U.S. nuclear weapons on an equal basis to China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country,\u2019 Trump wrote. \u2018This was accomplished, including a complete update and renovation of existing weapons, during my First Term in office. Because of the tremendous destructive power, I HATED to do it, but had no choice! Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years.\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Trump\u2019s announcement on TruthSocial came shortly before he was slated to meet face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time since 2019 in South Korea on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump said on Wednesday that he has instructed the Defense Department (DOD) to immediately begin testing U.S. nuclear weapons on an equal basis to China and Russia. \u2018The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country,\u2019 Trump wrote. \u2018This was accomplished, including a complete update and renovation of existing weapons, during my [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}