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US Nuclear Weapon Testing Wont Involve Any Explosions, Energy Secretary Says

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President Donald Trump said on Oct. 29 that he had instructed the Department of War to start testing nuclear weapons ‘on an equal basis’ with adversaries.U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright speaks during a news conference in Las Vegas on Monday Oct. 20, 2025. Ty ONeil/AP Photo11/2/2025|Updated: 11/2/2025Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Sunday that no nuclear explosions will take place during the nuclear weapons testing ordered by President Donald Trump.Wright told Fox News the tests are non-nuclear explosions and are intended to assess all the other parts of a nuclear weapon to make sure “they deliver the appropriate geometry” and can set up a nuclear explosion.Aldgra Fredly is a freelance writer covering U.S. and Asia Pacific news for The Epoch Times. Author’s Selected Articles

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