So when Trump says the other countries are testing, he's just lying, or he has no idea what he's talking about, just making it up, as he usually does. The problem is that we had conducted a thousand nuclear tests before 1996, and China had only conducted 45. So we have much more technological sophistication. What Trump is talking about would be a gift to China. If he began testing, then the Chinese and the Russians would as well. (08:41–08:51)
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Asserts that the U.S. conducted 1,000 nuclear tests before 1996, while China conducted 45.
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