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Pakistan has rejected Donald Trump’s It is claimed that it is among a handful of countries that are actively testing nuclear weapons.
A senior Pakistani security official told CBS News that his country “is not the first country to conduct nuclear testing and will not be the first country to resume nuclear testing”.
The rare denial comes at a time when Pakistan otherwise trying to strengthen Relations with the US under Mr Trump.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif The US President is being praised for striking a ceasefire with India after a brief military clash in May. India has not given much importance to Mr Trump’s participation.
Mr Trump, Who has instructed the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testingtold CBS News last week ChinaRussia, North Korea and Pakistan were also testing nuclear weapons, as he tried to justify his decision.
“Russia is testing, and China is testing, but they don’t talk about it,” Mr. Trump said in an interview. 60 minutes“We’re going to test, because they test, and other people test. And of course North Korea is testing. Pakistan is testing.”
When pressed on whether he was mixing nuclear weapons testing with nuclear missile testing, the President argued that the country “don’t go and tell you about it”.
“As powerful as they are, it’s a big world out there. You don’t necessarily know where they’re testing,” he said. “They do the testing underground, where people don’t know exactly what’s happening with the test. You feel a slight vibration.”
“They test and we don’t test,” he said. “We have to test.”
Last week, Mr Trump ordered the Pentagon to “immediately” begin testing our nuclear weapons, ending a three-decade-old moratorium on US nuclear testing and raising fears of a new arms race between the world’s nuclear powers.
The president’s order caused confusion and concern among scientists and experts, who warned that his “reckless” and vague instructions could risk the first major buildup of nuclear weapons by world powers in decades.
Mr Trump did not provide any details about the proposed tests, but the announcement appears to be designed to boost US developments in the race against modern nuclear weapons delivery systems from Russia and China. According to the Federation of American Scientists, the world’s nuclear powers have a combined total of more than 12,000 warheads.
The US and Russia alone have about 87 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons stockpile and 83 percent of the weapons available for military use. The rest is occupied by Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea.
The US last conducted a confirmed nuclear test in 1992 and signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996 – which bans all nuclear test explosions, whether military or civilian.
Pakistan has claimed that its last nuclear explosive test was conducted in 1998 and has maintained a “unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing” since then. Pakistan is not a signatory to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
China has reportedly not tested a nuclear weapon since 1996, and Russia’s most recent tests involved the delivery system, not the actual detonation of a nuclear device.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday rejected Mr Trump’s claim and said Beijing had not broken the informal moratorium for decades.
“As a responsible nuclear-weapon state, China is committed to peaceful development, adheres to a ‘no-first-use’ policy of nuclear weapons and a nuclear strategy focused on self-defense, and adheres to its nuclear test moratorium,” a spokesperson said.