File photo: US President Donald Trump and Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif Donald Trump, while announcing the US testing plan, said that Pakistan is one of the countries that tests nuclear weapons. US President Donald Trump has claimed that Pakistan is one of several countries actively testing nuclear weapons, claiming that this justifies his administration’s decision to restart US nuclear testing after more than 30 years. In an interview with CBS News’ 60 Minutes on Sunday, Trump said that Russia, China, North Korea and Pakistan were all testing while the United States did the testing.

He refrained from doing so. He said, “Russia is testing and China is testing, but they don’t talk about it. We’re an open society.

We’re different. We talk about it because otherwise you guys are going to report. They don’t have journalists who can write about it.

” Citing recent tests of advanced nuclear-capable systems by Russia, such testing was necessary to ensure the reliability of US weapons systems. He said, “You have to see how they work. We are the only country that doesn’t test.

And I don’t want to be the only country that doesn’t test. ” Trump’s announcement, made on social media minutes before his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea, caused confusion. The last US nuclear explosion was in 1992.

While no other country other than North Korea has been known to detonate for decades, Trump said that “they test underground where people don’t know exactly what’s going on. ” US Energy Secretary Chris Wright later clarified that the current discussions referred to “non-critical” system tests, not full nuclear detonations.