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The last U.S. explosive test of a nuclear weapon was in 1992.Credit...U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, via Associated PressBy David E. Sanger and William J. BroadFeb. 9, 2026\u9605\u8bfb\u7b80\u4f53\u4e2d\u6587\u7248\u95b1\u8b80\u7e41\u9ad4\u4e2d\u6587\u7248In the five days since the last remaining nuclear treaty between the United States and Russia expired, statements by administration officials have made two things clear: Washington is actively weighing the deployment of more nuclear weapons, and it is also likely to conduct a nuclear test of some kind.Both steps would reverse nearly 40 years of stricter nuclear control by the United States, which has reduced or kept steady the number of weapons it has loaded into silos, bombers and submarines. President Trump would be the first president since Ronald Reagan to increase them again, if he chose to do so. And the last time the United States conducted a nuclear test was 1992, though Mr. Trump said last year that he wanted to resume the detonations \u201con an equal basis\u201d with China and Russia.So far, the statements from the Trump administration have been vague. It has said that it is looking at a variety of scenarios that might bolster the arsenal by reusing nuclear arms now in storage, and that Mr. Trump has instructed his aides to resume testing. But no one has specified how many weapons may be deployed or what kind of tests could be conducted. The details matter, and may determine whether the three big nuclear powers are headed to a new arms race, or whether Mr. Trump is trying to force the other powers into a three-way negotiation on a new treaty.\u201cIt\u2019s all a bit mysterious,\u2019\u2019 said Jill Hruby, a longtime nuclear expert who, until last year, ran the National Nuclear Security Agency, a part of the Energy Department that designs, tests and manufactures American nuclear weapons. \u201cIt is very confusing what they are doing.\u201dThe indications started within hours of the expiration on Thursday of New START, which limited the number of weapons that the United States and Russia could deploy to roughly 1,550 each. Mr. Trump turned down an offer from President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for an informal extension of the 15-year treaty \u2014 which would not be legally binding \u2014 while both countries considered negotiating a successor treaty.That same day, the State Department sent its under secretary for arms control and international security, Thomas G. DiNanno, to Geneva to address the Conference on Disarmament. The treaty, he complained in a speech, \u201cplaced unilateral constraints on the United States that were unacceptable.\u201d And he noted that in Mr. Trump\u2019s first term the president had pulled out of two previous treaties with Russia \u2014 the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty and the Open Skies Treaty \u2014 because of Russian violations.He repeated a familiar case, which many Democrats in the national security world have also voiced, that the New START treaty failed to cover whole new classes of nuclear weapons that Russia and China are developing, and that any new treaty would have to place limits on Beijing, which has the fastest-growing nuclear force on the globe.Want to stay updated on what\u2019s happening in China and Russia? Sign up for Your Places: Global Update, and we\u2019ll send our latest coverage to your inbox.Then he noted that the United States was now free \u201cto strengthen deterrence on behalf of the American people.\u201d The United States will \u201ccomplete our ongoing nuclear modernization programs,\u201d he said \u2014 a reference to hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on new silos, new submarines and new bombers \u2014 and noted that Washington \u201cretains nondeployed nuclear capability that can be used to address the emerging security environment, if directed by the president.\u201dOne option, he noted, is \u201cexpanding current forces\u201d and \u201cdeveloping and fielding new theater-range nuclear forces,\u201d the shorter-range nuclear weapons that Russia has deployed in abundance. (New START covered only \u201cstrategic\u201d weapons that can be launched halfway around the world.)ImageThe U.S.S. Michigan, an Ohio-class nuclear-powered submarine, at a naval base in Busan, South Korea, in 2017.Credit...Jeon Heon-Kyun\/European Pressphoto AgencyOne imminent surge centers on the nation\u2019s Ohio-class submarines. Each of the 14 underwater craft have 24 tubes that can launch nuclear-tipped missiles. To comply with the New START limits, the Navy disabled four tubes on each sub. Now, relieved of those restrictions, plans are moving ahead to reopen the tubes \u2014 allowing the loading of four more missiles onto each sub. In all, that move alone will add up to hundreds of more warheads that can threaten the nation\u2019s adversaries.It is possible, of course, that such deployments are intended only to push other nuclear powers into negotiations, a familiar form of nuclear poker during the Cold War. But it is also possible that Russia and China decide they would rather expand their forces.China has, until now, shown little interest in arms control, at least until its forces approximate the size of Washington\u2019s and Moscow\u2019s. As Franklin Miller and Eric Edelman, two nuclear strategists who served in past Republican administrations, noted in Foreign Affairs last year, China \u201cregards any willingness to engage in arms control as a sign of weakness, and it views the transparency and verification process that would presumably undergird such an accord as intrusive and akin to espionage.\u201dTrump Administration: Live UpdatesUpdated\u00a0Feb. 10, 2026, 10:22 a.m. ET1 hour agoPride Flag Is Taken Down From Stonewall MonumentLawmakers in both parties demanded more oversight after two U.S. citizens were killed by immigration agents.Trump threatens to block the opening of a new bridge between the U.S. and Canada.In his speech in Geneva, Mr. DiNanno also gave the first detailed explanation by a Trump administration official for what the president meant last year when he ordered a restart of nuclear arms testing. Mr. Trump made his carefully worded \u201con an equal basis\u201d statement just before his October meeting with President Xi Jinping of China. In an interview last month with The New York Times, Mr. Trump said he had spoken at length with Mr. Xi on nuclear issues. But he gave no details.ImagePresident Trump with President Xi Jinping of China in South Korea last year.Credit...Haiyun Jiang\/The New York TimesInitially, some American nuclear experts outside the government saw Mr. Trump\u2019s remarks as meaning that the United States planned the kind of powerful underground nuclear tests that were frequent symbols of the tit-for-tat Cold War competition a half century ago. The tests were detonated underground, sending shock waves radiating into the earth\u2019s crust and from there ricocheting around the globe. The blasts were easy to detect.And while the United States, Russia and China have suspended those kinds of tests \u2014 observing the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty even though the U.S. Senate has never ratified it \u2014 North Korea ignored it. Between 2006 and 2017 it conducted six underground tests, shattering the hopes for a global moratorium.The testing ban, which took effect in 1996, forbids tests that produce any explosive force whatsoever, no matter how minuscule. It is called a \u201czero-yield\u201d treaty.But some experts have long had a different view of Mr. Trump\u2019s remarks, interpreting them as calling for relatively small tests that would release no detectable shock waves. The absence of earthshaking explosions make these tests nearly impossible to detect.In his Geneva talk, Mr. DiNanno made clear that the Trump administration believed that Russia and China had already conducted such tests, and he suggested that the president\u2019s call for testing \u201con an equal basis\u201d might allow the United States to do the same.Mr. DiNanno said the U.S. government knew that China had conducted \u201cnuclear explosive tests\u201d it sought to conceal. He specifically pointed to one on June 22, 2020, toward the end of Mr. Trump\u2019s first term.The main global network that seeks to monitor adherence to the test ban said in a recent statement that it had detected no test explosion on that date. And American officials say that over the past five years, American intelligence experts have debated whether or not the Chinese government actually conducted the test. But Mr. DiNanno expressed no doubt.\u201cDiNanno\u2019s comments surprised me,\u201d said Terry C. Wallace, a former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory who long studied China\u2019s program of nuclear experimentation. \u201cThey had no caveats\u201d rooted in the field\u2019s uncertainties, he said.ImageA shaft at the Nevada Test Site being prepared for an underground nuclear test in the early 1990s.Credit...National Nuclear Security AdministrationIn his talk, Mr. DiNanno said Beijing used \u201cdecoupling\u201d to hide its testing. He was referring to a technique that bomb designers use to separate the shock waves of a nuclear detonation so that they make no impact on the earth\u2019s crust. The means include bottling up a small explosion in a container behind superstrong walls of steel.The United States knows the process well: From 1958 to 1961, long before the global test ban, American nuclear weapons designers conducted more than 40 such tests, even though there was a U.S.-Soviet test moratorium.In his talk, Mr. DiNanno did not detail the implications of his claims. But he repeated the \u201con an equal basis\u201d wording, suggesting that the United States was headed in that direction, too. There was some ambiguity, however. He said that the United States was eager to \u201crestore responsible behavior when it comes to nuclear testing\u201d but gave no indication of what he meant by \u201cresponsible.\u201dDavid E. Sanger\u00a0covers the Trump administration and a range of national security issues. He has been a Times journalist for more than four decades and has written four books on foreign policy and national security challenges.William J. Broad has reported on science at The Times since 1983. 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Trump AdministrationliveUpdatesEpstein FilesWhistle-Blower ReportTrumpRxCall to ‘Nationalize’ ElectionsPolicy LawsuitsTariff TrackerAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTNewly Unbound, Trump Weighs More Nuclear Arms and Underground TestsIt remains to be seen whether the three big nuclear powers are headed into a new arms race, or whether President Trump is trying to spur negotiations on a new accord now that a last Cold War treaty has expired.Listen to this article · 8:37 min Learn moreShare full articleAn underground atomic test at the Nevada Test Site near Yucca Flats in 1955. The last U.S. explosive test of a nuclear weapon was in 1992.Credit...U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, via Associated PressBy David E. Sanger and William J. BroadFeb. 9, 2026阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版In the five days since the last remaining nuclear treaty between the United States and Russia expired, statements by administration officials have made two things clear: Washington is activel...
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Simplified: The last U.S. nuclear weapon test was in 1992
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Simplified: Washington is weighing deployment of more nuclear weapons
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Simplified: Washington is likely to conduct a nuclear test
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Nuclear Weapons , Politics , History 🆔 a1162a5b-6cf8-4279-a611-08659d7ccf31Simplified: President Trump would be first president since Ronald Reagan to increase nuclear weapons if he chose to do so
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Simplified: Mr Trump said last year he wanted to resume detonations on equal basis with China and Russia
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , International Relations 🆔 a1162a5b-965b-4b92-a87d-c48caa71ada8Simplified: State Department sent Thomas G DiNanno to Geneva to address Conference on Disarmament
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Nuclear Weapons , International Relations 🆔 a1162a5b-a8f4-4880-bfa2-6d55139dc9b0Simplified: New START covered only strategic weapons that can be launched halfway around world
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Simplified: Each of 14 underwater craft has 24 tubes that can launch nuclear-tipped missiles
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Nuclear Weapons , Military , International Relations 🆔 a1162a5b-d1db-4b46-aa32-25aef484b8d9Simplified: Navy disabled four tubes on each sub to comply with New START limits
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That move alone will add up to hundreds of more warheads that can threaten the nation’s adversaries.0.900Simplified: That move alone will add up to hundreds of more warheads that can threaten nation’s adversaries
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Simplified: Mr. DiNanno gave the first detailed explanation for what President Trump meant when he ordered a restart of nuclear arms testing.
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , International Relations 🆔 a1162a5c-0dec-4e58-9682-0ed8823cbdb1Simplified: President Trump made his "on an equal basis" statement before his October meeting with President Xi Jinping of China.
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , International Relations 🆔 a1162a5c-20e9-48a2-883f-27cdfd3a7765Simplified: Mr. Trump said he had spoken at length with Mr. Xi on nuclear issues in an interview with The New York Times last month.
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Simplified: Tests were detonated underground sending shock waves around the globe.
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Simplified: The blasts were easy to detect.
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ International Relations , Military 🆔 a1162a5c-7aa2-401b-9c39-d172f564cb1bSimplified: The United States Russia and China suspended those kinds of tests observing the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty North Korea ignored it.
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Simplified: North Korea conducted six underground tests between 2006 and 2017.
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Simplified: The testing ban which took effect in 1996 forbids tests that produce any explosive force.
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Simplified: The testing ban is called a “zero-yield” treaty.
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Simplified: Mr. DiNanno pointed to a test on June 22 2020 toward the end of Mr. Trump’s first term.
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Simplified: The main global network said it had detected no test explosion on June 22 2020.
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Military , International Relations 🆔 a1162a5d-07fa-471b-b685-294646452fb0Simplified: American officials say American intelligence experts have debated whether the Chinese government conducted the test over the past five years.
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👤 Mr. DiNanno 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , International Relations 🆔 a1162a5d-1c12-4b76-bd85-a93e3f6b05d6Simplified: Mr. DiNanno expressed no doubt.
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Military , International Relations 🆔 a1162a5d-2f67-41eb-8589-5f12b4028010Simplified: Beijing used “decoupling” to hide its testing.
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The means include bottling up a small explosion in a container behind superstrong walls of steel.0.900Simplified: Decoupling includes bottling up a small explosion in a container behind superstrong walls of steel.
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , International Relations 🆔 a1162a5d-74fc-4795-932b-0e7c8b31cf7aSimplified: Mr. DiNanno repeated the “on an equal basis” wording suggesting the United States was headed in that direction.
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👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , International Relations 🆔 a1162a5d-86d1-42b9-9cd0-923d4b6f1ff4Simplified: Mr. DiNanno said the United States was eager to “restore responsible behavior when it comes to nuclear testing” but gave no indication of what he mean...