Pakistan ‘testing’ nuclear weapons, Trump says US has ‘enough nukes to blow up world 150 times’

US President Donald Trump made waves on Monday after revealing that Pakistan was presently testing nuclear weapons. The remarks came days after the POTUS asked the Pentagon to resume nuclear testing following a gap of nearly 30 years. Trump insisted that the move was necessary — while admitting that the US had “enough nuclear weapons to blow up the world 150 times”.

The US military was recently ordered to immediately restart the process for testing nuclear weapons after a halt of 33 years — viewed by most as a message to rival nuclear powers China and Russia. The decision was announced while the POTUS was en route to a meeting with Xi Jinping and came mere weeks after Moscow held trials trials of advanced nuclear-capable systems, including a Poseidon underwater drone.

‘We can blow up the world 150 times’

“Well, we have more nuclear weapons than any other country. Russia’s second. China’s a very distant third, but they’ll be even in five years. You know, they’re making them rapidly, and I think we should do something about denuclearisation…”Denuclearisation’s a very big thing. We have enough nuclear weapons to blow up the world 150 times. Russia has a lot of nuclear weapons, and China will have a lot. They have some. They have quite a bit,” he said. 

‘Pakistan testing nukes’

Trump also claimed that he had discussed denuclearisation with both Russian President Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping in recent weeks. He insisted that both countries were ‘secretly’ testing nukes while defending the US decision. Trump made the surprise announcement about US nuclear tests last week while flying out to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping for talks in South Korea.

“Russia’s testing and China’s testing, but they don’t talk about it. We’re an open society. We’re different. We talk about it. We have to talk about it because otherwise you people are going to report. They don’t have reporters that are going to be writing about it. We’re going to test because they test and others test. And certainly North Korea’s been testing. Pakistan’s been testing,” he told CBS News.