Trump’s Testing Plans for US Nuclear Weapons Won’t Include Explosions, Energy Secretary Says

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 06: U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright speaks during an event with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on October 06, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump spoke on an executive order to increase the development and production of Alaska’s natural resources. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Energy Secretary Chris Wright says that new tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions. Wright in a Fox News interview on Sunday clarified the Trump administration’s plans. Trump in a social media post last week said that he had “instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.” Trump in the days since making that pronouncement had been coy when asked by reporters about whether he was ordering the resumption of explosive testing of nuclear weapons or calling for the testing of U.S. systems that could deliver a nuclear weapon.