Imagine ramping up nuke tests for the fear of missing out!

In an age defined by viral trends and competitive brinkmanship, the latest announcement from Donald Trump feels almost surreal. On October 29, the US President declared on Truth Social that he had “instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis" with Russia and China. The post, casually dropped hours before a scheduled meeting with China’s Xi Jinping, jolted Washington, startled allies, and reignited a debate many thought was buried with the Cold War: the return of US nuclear weapons testing.

If carried out, this would mark the first full nuclear test by the United States since 1992—a 33-year hiatus that had become both a technical tradition and a moral statement. The move appears, on the surface, to be about parity: Trump’s phrasing “on an equal basis" implies a fear that Washington is falling behind Moscow and Beijing in the nuclear arena. Yet no credible evidence suggests either Russia or China has resumed full explosive testing. Both, like the US, have relied on computer simulations, subcritical experiments, and delivery-system demonstrations to keep........

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