Author	: Bill Kochman
Publish	: Dec. 15, 2010
Update	: Dec. 15, 2010
Parts	: 04

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Continuing our discussion from part one, my dear friends, as I am sure many of you already understand, this is indeed a very worrisome situation. It is kind of similar to a pressure cooker just waiting for the lid to blow off. For those of you who may not be aware, allow me to share a few statistics with you. To begin with, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, under the leadership of Xi Jinping, Communist China has been significantly upgrading its military hardware. In fact, its nuclear warhead stockpile has expanded to some six hundred warheads in recent years with one hundred warheads being added per year since 2023. Furthermore, it is the view of the Pentagon that China could have as many as one thousand operational nuclear warheads by the year 2030.

Turning our attention to Russia, the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation estimates that Vladimir Putin currently possesses 5,459 nuclear warheads, of which 1,600 are actively deployed. In contrast, the CACNP also estimates that the USA is in possession of some 5,550 nuclear warheads, with perhaps 3,800 of those currently being active. The point is this, my friends. While the USA, Russia and China have not conducted any live tests since the 1990s, nevertheless, they are ALL still in possession of A LOT of nukes. So what if Mr. Trump is symbolically lighting a match with his recent decision? Remember; if you play with fire, you will be burned by that very same fire.

As I was researching information and writing this article, I was reminded of an entirely different and unrelated subject. That is to say, advanced, intelligent alien life. While some of my readers may not be aware of it, one theory which has been proposed to explain why the people of Earth have never made contact with an intelligent alien race -- for those of you are even open-minded enough to accept such a possibility -- is that these other assumed alien races reached a certain level of technology, and then they just destroyed themselves.

It is indeed a frightening proposition, whether you believe it or not, isn't it? I discuss the possibility of alien life in my eight-part series entitled "Alien Life, Extrasolar Planets and Universal Atonement", which you will find listed at the end of this same article with a clickable link, for those of my readers who may be interested in reading it.

My friends, if Trump's decision is not already worrisome as it is, the next question we have to address is how the other major nuclear states have reacted to the North Korean tests, and even more recently to America's new position. As I asked you a minute ago, with his recent decision and order, is it possible that President Trump is foolishly lighting a match which will eventually lead to a terrible nuclear fire, and a potential nuclear holocaust some years down the road which will wipe out civilization on our planet? After all, if he raises his devilish sword of nuclear fire, America's enemies will respond in kind by doing the very same thing. Do not doubt it for a minute!

Yes, I know that will undoubtedly sound like a very alarmist, gloom-and-doom statement to some of my readers. I normally do NOT make such statements. However, the fact remains that even at this very moment, we humans do possess the means to totally obliterate ourselves from this planet. Thus, it is foolish to try to hide our heads in the sand, simply ignore the reality of the situation, and pretend that it does not exist, because it most certainly does. And now we have a situation which may potentially precipitate it.

I must confess that I do find something rather odd regarding President Trump's decision and order. He claims that he made his decision based on China's rapid expansion of its nuclear warheads stockpile, and also detonation of nuclear devices by other nations, namely North Korea. However, here's the thing. National leaders and governments rarely ever tell the general population why they are really doing certain things. Instead, they like to feed us red herrings which will purposely lead us away from the real truth. They constantly psychologically manipulate us and gaslight us so that we become so confused, that we really have no idea regarding what is actually going on. Well, in this case the real facts on the ground are the following:

    * Russia's last known nuclear test was in 1990.

    * The USA last conducted nuclear tests in 1990.

    * China's last tested nuclear devices in 1996.

    * India and Pakistan conducted tests in 1998.

    * North Korea's last nuclear test was in 2017.

You no doubt noticed that even in the "60 Minutes" excerpts I shared with you in part one, CBS's correspondent Norah O'Donnell repeatedly questioned President Trump regarding some of the false statements that he was making regarding Russia, China and Pakistan. Yet despite her queries, Trump just kept bulldozing through his responses. He repeatedly cut off O'Donnell in a disrespectful manner, and insisted that he was speaking the truth. Meanwhile, not only was he being rather evasive with his responses, but he never even offered one shred of real factual evidence to support his claims.

To be fair and transparent with my readers, I did not watch the actual interview myself. However, from just reading the provided transcript, that is the impression I was given. Mr. Tump came across as being very weak in his responses to me personally. As he has done on previous occasions, he wanted viewers to believe him, just because he said so, or perhaps because he is the president. However, that is NOT the way it works. We are not just mindless, obedient robots. We need to carefully analyze all of the known facts, and then arrive at our own conclusions.

My friends, when a national leader is talking about nuclear weapons stockpiles, and accuses other countries of certain treaty violations without providing any evidence to support such claims, that is very serious business, and it should not be taken lightly. One must carefully guard their words and speak circumspectly. A leader should not intentionally inflame his perceived enemies. This is obviously NOT one of President Trump's strengths, as we all know, or at least should know, being as this is now Mr. Trump's second term in office. The Bible has a lot to say regarding being slow to speak, as we can determine by the following group of verses:

"BE NOT RASH WITH THY MOUTH, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore LET THY WORDS BE FEW."


"Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, SLOW TO SPEAK, slow to wrath . . . If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this mans religion is vain."


In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but HE THAT REFRAINETH HIS LIPS IS WISE."


"For he that will love life, and see good days, LET HIM REFRAIN HIS TONGUE FROM EVIL, and his lips that they speak no guile:"


"A fool uttereth all his mind: but A WISE MAN KEEPETH IT IN TILL AFTERWARDS."


"He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him."


"He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls."


As the previous verses reveal, it is indeed unwise for us to speak before we know all of the facts. Even worse than just being quick to speak is when motivated by our foolish pride, jealousy or rage, we intentionally accuse others falsely and slander and speak lies against them. The Bible has a lot to say regarding this issue, and refers to it as bearing false witness. Considering the following group of additional Bible verses which verify these various points:

"Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer."


"The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate."


"Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee."


"He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool."


"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour."


"Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour."


"A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow."


He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."


"Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother."


"Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother."


"Owe no man any thing, but to love one another; for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."


So exactly why is it so important that we refrain our lips from lying, accusing others falsely, slandering them, and bearing false witness against them? As Jesus himself informs us in the Gospel of Matthew, it is because we will each be judged by the very words that we speak. Not only that, but as we have already discussed, in the end, we will reap what we have each sown, as we see by the following two verses:

"For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned."


"Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof."


Following are a few additional Bible verses regarding wicked people who seem to have nothing better to do with their sad lives than to go around lying about people, stirring up all manner of discord and division, and creating all kinds of trouble with their vile, poison-spitting tongues wherever and whenever they possibly can. They are despicable people indeed!:

"The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;"


"A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy."


"Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell."


Quite frankly, I think US President Trump could learn a lot from the previous Bible verses, if he would just take them to heart. Sadly, it is apparent to many of us that his ego and his pride seem to be greater than his humility. So let us continue with our primary discussion regarding President Trump's accusations, and his apparent intentions to renew underground nuclear tests.

Even if we consider Kim Jong Un's last nuclear detonation that occurred in the Fall of 2017, it has been over eight years since anyone has conducted a nuclear test. If we leave out North Korea, it has been twenty-seven years and as long as thirty-five years. Yet despite this long lapse of time, America's President Trump is claiming that due to detonations that occurred years ago, he has suddenly decided and ordered that the United States must begin conducting nuclear tests again. My friends, in my opinion, this just does not add up. Furthermore, I believe that American Vice President JD Vance revealed the actual reason for the US's planned resumption of underground nuclear tests this past October -- 2025 -- with certain statements that he made to the White House press corps.

For those of my readers who may not remember what Vance said back then or who may have missed the Vice President's comments altogether, while he was defending President Trump's extremely controversial decision and order regarding the resumption of testing nuclear weapons after a gap of thirty-three years -- again, since 1990 -- JD made the following revealing comments:

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"Well, I think the president's truth [meaning Truth Social post] speaks for itself. We have a big arsenal. Obviously, the Russians have a large nuclear arsenal. The Chinese have a large nuclear arsenal. Sometimes you've got to test it to make sure that it's functioning and working properly . . . It's an important part of American national security to make sure that this nuclear arsenal we have actually functions properly . . . To be clear, we know that it does work properly, but you got to keep on top of it over time, and the president just wants to make sure that we do that"

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So you see, it really has very little to do with tests that were conducted eight years ago or longer. America under the Trump administration simply wants to make sure that the US' nuclear stockpile and associated hardware is still working properly. In fact, I think JD made a little verbal slip, but then quickly corrected himself by stating "we know that it does work properly." The fact of the matter, my friends, is that all of that hardware has been sitting there unused for decades now, and such hardware does degrade and deteriorate over time. Thus, Trump wants to be reassured that if a major nuclear war were to erupt, the United States would be fully prepared for it.

Quite frankly, I find the whole idea ludicrous, vile, obscene and quite wicked. After all, if the nukes really do start to fly, the ONLY thing any national leader will want to do is to make certain that if his country is being taken out, that the other opposing country is taken out as well. What else could a leader possibly want to be prepared for? After all, no one would survive such a nuclear holocaust, right? Or at least they certainly would not want to once they are forced to live in the horrible aftermath which would follow such a terribly devastating nuclear war.

If you are wondering exactly what such a terrible situation would actually even be like, you may want to consider asking some of the remaining aging survivors of the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb attacks about that. I am sure they would have a lot to say concerning aftermath conditions. In Japan, these dwindling survivors of those two atomic bomb blasts are referred to as the "Hibakusha". Officially, there are said to now be less than 100,000 of them. However, their numbers are shrinking rapidly due to their advanced age. One interesting thing about them is that many of them have begun to speak out by sharing their personal war stories, and are advocating for global nuclear disarmament before human pride and stupidity results in history repeating itself somewhere in the world.

Returning to our discussion concerning Trump's recent order, we likewise need to remember that like many presidents before him, Mr. Trump strongly believes in the military doctrine of "peace through strength". In other words, show your perceived enemies that before they even think about attacking you, they had better think again. Why? Because if they are so foolish as to do so, they will get clobbered right back. Furthermore, if we are talking about a nuclear attack, forget it! That is why those nations which already possess nuclear weapons view them as a very strong means of deterrence. In short, if you do it, then I'll do it too -- assuming I have time -- and it will surely result in MAD. That is to say, "Mutually Assured Destruction". What a devilish doctrine indeed! Sadly, that is PRECISELY how those warmongering leaders actually think.

So, as I am sure you can see by now, President Trump's order to resume the testing and detonation of nuclear devices is by no means a good idea whatsoever. However, you should know that this issue is a lot more confusing than what it seems on the surface. That is because while Mr. Trump appeared to be indicating that the United States would soon begin a new phase of testing and detonating actual nuclear devices, the secretary of the U.S. Energy Department -- Chris Wright -- which oversees America's nuclear program, appears to have outright contradicted the president, and described a rather different picture of what could soon happen.

In an interview with Fox News' Peter Doocy on the "The Sunday Briefing" news show, which aired on the same day as President Trump's interview with Norah O'Donnell on CBS's "60 Minutes", Wright made the following statements during the interview. I personally extracted these quotes verbatim from the news show using software on my computer. In my view, what Wright states really clears up a lot of the confusion that was created by Trump's ambiguous responses on "60 Minutes":

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"Well, I knew that modernizing our nuclear stockpile was a critical priority. A lot of our weapons are very old, and president trump's been adamant about we have to be at the forefront. We need to be ahead of our adversaries, and we need to keep our weapons stockpile modern and upgraded. So I knew I'd be working on this modernization program that's going on.

I think the tests we're talking about right now are system tests. These are not nuclear explosions. These are what we call non-critical explosions. So you're testing all the other parts of a nuclear weapon to make sure they deliver the appropriate geometry and they set up a nuclear explosion.

The testing that we'll be doing is on new systems, and again these will be non-nuclear explosions. These are just developing the sophisticated systems so that our replacement nuclear weapons are even better than the ones they were before. They're reliable in all circumstances under all conditions, and they deliver the performance they were designed for.

The U.S. actually has a great advantage. With our science and our computation power, we can simulate incredibly accurately exactly what will happen in a nuclear explosion. And we can do that because in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, we did nuclear test explosions. We had them detailed and instrumented and we measured exactly what happened. Now we simulate what were the conditions that delivered that and as we change bomb designs, what will they deliver. We have a reasonable advantage today in nuclear weapons design over all of our adversaries."

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So as you can plainly see, based on what Chris Wright states in the previous interview excerpts, and contrary to what was said by President Trump, the United States will NOT actually be detonating nuclear devices, and they will definitely NOT be doing anything that results in the creation of a nuclear chain reaction, which is the actual beginning of a nuclear explosion. While I could be wrong, my understanding is that Vice President JD Vance was talking about the very same kind of tests in the previous quote I shared with you from this past October. As Mr. Wright states, these preparatory steps are referred to as "non-critical explosions", or simply as "non-criticals". Following is a more detailed explanation regarding what non-criticals are, how they are used, and why they are used. This an AI generated response:

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"Non-critical" in nuclear testing refers to experiments using nuclear materials that do not cause a self-sustaining nuclear fission chain reaction or a nuclear explosion, unlike actual warhead tests, often called subcritical experiments. These tests use small amounts of fissile material (like plutonium) or configurations that prevent criticality, allowing scientists to study weapon physics, materials, and safety without creating a nuclear yield, ensuring stockpile reliability.

KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF NON-CRITICAL TESTS:

    * No Nuclear Yield: They don't produce a mushroom cloud or significant nuclear energy release, just traditional explosive energy.

    * Subcritical Mass: The amount or arrangement of plutonium is too small or configured incorrectly to sustain a chain reaction.

    * Stockpile Stewardship: They are part of ongoing efforts (Stockpile Stewardship Program) to maintain the safety and effectiveness of existing nuclear weapons without full-scale testing.

    * Distinction from Criticality: "Critical" means a stable, ongoing fission chain reaction (like in a reactor), while "non-critical" means stopping short of that state.

WHY THEY ARE USED:

    * Safety & Reliability: To verify weapon components still work as intended.

    * Arms Control Compliance: They fall outside bans on full nuclear explosive tests, allowing research under treaties like the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

    * Understanding Physics: To gather data on materials under extreme conditions, ensuring weapons remain viable.

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As I dug deeper into the issue of non-critical explosions, I discovered that both Russia and the United States have been conducting these types of tests for literally decades, ever since the CTBT went into effect in 1996. Concerning China, a question mark seems to hover around what it has done and has not done in this area of nuclear research. Furthermore, these types of tests are in fact permitted under the CTBT, because they are not actually full chain reaction explosions, and as the previous detailed explanation points out, such tests help nuclear states to maintain their stockpiles in both a safe and reliable condition. Following is additional information regarding what is currently known insofar as how many such non-critical -- a.k.a. subcritical -- experiments have been conducted by each nuclear state since the CTBT first went into effect in 1996.

    * United States -- Has conducted over 20 (at least 27, with the latest being "Pollux" in 2012) subcritical experiments at the Nevada National Security Site (formerly the Nevada Test Site) since 1996. The purpose is to maintain the safety and reliability of its nuclear stockpile as part of its Science Based Stockpile Stewardship Program.

    * Russia -- Has also conducted subcritical tests at its Novaya Zemlya test site. Reports indicate they had performed at least three such tests by the year 2000, and potentially more since, although precise numbers are less publicly available than for the U.S.

    * China -- Is believed to have the infrastructure and technology to conduct subcritical tests and is suspected of doing so, but no confirmed number has been announced or publicly detected by international monitoring systems.

    * Other nuclear-armed states, including the United Kingdom, France, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel have either not conducted non-critical tests, or information regarding such activities is not yet publicly available, or widely reported. India, Pakistan and North Korea have conducted actual nuclear explosive tests since 1996, but these were full nuclear tests, not non-critical experiments, and were conducted by non-signatory states to the CTBT at the time.

As multiple news agencies have reported, after President Trump made his very provocative statements regarding the potential resumption of underground nuclear tests in late October and early November of this same year -- 2025 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin proceeded to impart instructions to several Russian government ministries to draft proposals for Russia's similar potential resumption of its own nuclear tests. Putin in fact made the following statements to the Russian Security Council in early November, as relayed by an English transcript which was released by the Kremlin at that time:

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"In this regard, I instruct the Foreign Ministry, the Defence Ministry, the special services, and the corresponding civilian agencies to do everything possible to gather additional information on this matter, have it analyzed by the Security Council, and submit coordinated proposals on the possible first steps focusing on preparations for nuclear weapons tests."

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At the same time, Putin totally denied the claims which had been made by Donald Trump during the "60 Minutes" interview. Mr. Putin in fact reminded everyone who was present at that Security Council meeting that to date, the Russia Federation has consistently adhered to the conditions that are outlined in the CTBT, or Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Putin further added that his country would continue to do so until another country violated the treaty first, as you can see by the following quotes which I extracted from that November 2025 Russian Security Council meeting:

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"I took note of some of your remarks and opinions and I would like to note that Russia has always strictly adhered to its obligations under the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and we do not plan to abandon these obligations."

"At the same time, indeed, in my 2023 Address to the Federal Assembly, I said that if the United States or any other state party to the Treaty was to conduct such tests, Russia would be under obligation to take reciprocal measures."

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In other words, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia would indeed respond if the United States were to act first to resume its own nuclear tests. That is to say, if the United States were to begin to actually detonate any nuclear devices in underground test facilities. If you're interested in reading the full English transcript of that portion of the November Russian Security Council meeting, please proceed to the URL below. Please note that I cannot guarantee that the English transcript will still be accessible when you visit this web page:

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/78403

Please go to part three for the continuation of this series.

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