US President Donald Trump, in an interview on Sunday (Nov 2), claimed that Pakistan is among the countries that have been actively testing nuclear weapons. He also repeated his claims of using trade to stop the India-Pakistan war in May this year. Now, he has claimed that India was ready for a nuclear war with Pakistan. Previously, he had claimed that as many as seven ‘brand new, beautiful’ jets were shot down during the conflict. In the interview, Trump also highlighted that Russia, China, North Korea are also conducting nuclear tests.
In an interview with CBS News's 60 Minutes, Trump said, "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 who 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 added. He was appearing on CBS after settling $16 million lawsuit.
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This comes after Trump, on Oct 30, instructed the Department of War to start testing nuclear weapons "immediately." In a Truth Social post, Trump said that the United States has more nuclear weapons than any other country. Highlighting that he hates testing of nuclear weapons “because of the tremendous destructive power,” Trump added that he is ordering the same because of the testing programs of other nations. “Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years. Because of other countries' testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately,” he said in the post.

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Reiterating his claims about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's assurance regarding trade with the US, Trump said, “I think we're gonna get it done, yeah. I think he really wants to do business with the US… If it wasn't for tariffs and trade I wouldn't have been able to make the deals... They were going to war. They were gonna have a nuclear war with Pakistan.” He also quoted Pakistan’s PM Shehbaz Sharif's remark, saying, “If Donald Trump didn't get involved, many millions of people would be dead right now.” Trump's claims keep coming despite India's categorical rejection of them.

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