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North Korea remains the only nation known to have conducted a nuclear detonation since the 1990s
Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif, US President Donald Trump (Photos: Reuters)
A senior Pakistani official told CBS News that the country “will not be the first to resume nuclear tests," responding to President Trump’s assertion in a 60 Minutes interview that Pakistan has conducted nuclear weapons tests, along with Russia and China.
“Pakistan was not the first to carry out nuclear tests and will not be the first to resume nuclear tests," the official told CBS News.
China was the first among the nations mentioned by Trump in his interview with CBS News correspondent Norah O’Donnell to deny conducting any secret nuclear testing.
“Russia’s testing, and China’s testing, but they don’t talk about it," Trump said, defending his recent announcement that the United States would carry out its own nuclear tests. “We’re going to test, because they test and others test. And certainly North Korea’s been testing. Pakistan’s been testing."
The interview aired just days after Trump’s nominee to lead STRATCOM, the US military command overseeing the country’s nuclear arsenal, told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that neither China nor Russia was conducting nuclear explosive tests.
North Korea remains the only nation known to have conducted a nuclear detonation since the 1990s. China’s last confirmed test took place in 1996, while Pakistan’s was in 1998.
Since then, Pakistan has said it continues to observe a “unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing," even though it is not a signatory to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
The United States is among nearly 180 nations that have signed the CTBT, which prohibits all nuclear explosions. However, like China and several other nuclear powers, the U.S. has never ratified the treaty — a point Russian President Vladimir Putin underscored two years ago when he withdrew Moscow’s ratification.
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November 04, 2025, 08:00 IST
News world 'We'll Not Be The First To Resume Nuclear Tests': Pakistani Official After Trump Remarks
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