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That process will begin immediately,&#8221; Trump said on Truth Social, ahead of the meeting with Xi in South Korea.       &#8220;Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years,&#8221; Trump noted.       President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Russia had successfully tested a Poseidon nuclear-powered super torpedo that military analysts say is capable of devastating coastal regions by triggering vast radioactive ocean swells.       As Trump has toughened both his rhetoric and his stance on Russia, Putin has publicly flexed his nuclear muscles with the test of a new Burevestnik crui<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump, ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, said he has instructed the Department of Defense to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons on an &#8220;equal basis&#8221; with other nuclear powers. &#8220;Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump asks Pentagon to immediately resume testing - 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