The Nuclear Club: The 9 countries armed with nukes as US set to resume weapons testing

By James C Reynolds and Maryam Zakir-Hussain – Indepedent

The United States is to resume nuclear weapons testing “immediately”, Donald Trump has announced, raising fears of renewed proliferation between the world’s two biggest stockpiles of atomic weaponry.

The American president has outwardly pursued a rapprochement in US-Russian relations since returning to the White House in January, but continued provocations from Moscow have pressed Washington to change its stance.