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Tonight, global attention is riveted on a sharp—and profoundly unsettling—escalation in nuclear rhetoric and weapons posturing from Moscow and Washington. In the past twenty-four hours, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the successful test of the Poseidon, a nuclear-powered underwater drone touted by the Kremlin as immune to interception, with a nuclear reactor “100 times smaller than those on submarines,” and reportedly capable of delivering a warhead far beyond the punch of Russia’s newest intercontinental missiles. Describing the test as a "great success," Putin claims Poseidon gives Russia a decisive edge at sea, a statement that, as reported by The Independent, comes just days after a tense nuclear launch drill and the announcement of a successful Burevestnik cruise missile test—part of a pattern of signaling to the West that worries security analysts worldwide.
But the nuclear stand-off has quickly crossed borders. In rapid response, former U.S. President Donald Trump stunned both allies and adversaries by instructing the Pentagon to “immediately” resume nuclear weapons testing, a move not seen in the U.S. since 1992. According to The Independent, this abrupt order drew swift criticism across Capitol Hill and from arms control experts alike. Daryl Kimball, director of the Arms Control Association, warned that the United States has neither technical nor strategic necessity to resume nuclear tests, and that doing so could “trigger a chain reaction of testing by U.S. adversaries, and blow apart the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty”—raising the specter of a full-blown arms race. Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey called the decision “reckless,” saying it could only undermine U.S. safety and encourage proliferation.
The global response has been anything but muted. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decried Trump’s order, stating that “nuclear testing can never be permitted under any circumstances,” and warning of the world’s already “alarmingly high” nuclear risks. The wave of condemnation underscores the latent fear that one miscalculation or provocation could shatter decades-old arms control frameworks, plunging the world back into nuclear brinkmanship.
As the United States and Russia edge toward confrontation not seen since the Cold War, the world’s eyes and nerves are fixed on what could be the beginning of a hazardous new era. For now, global leaders, citizens, and indeed, the entire human family, are left to grapple with the return of a nuclear threat that was thought by many to be relegated to history.
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