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turbinetree

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Wed Oct 29, 2025, 09:38 PM Oct 2025

Trump uncorks startling nuclear bomb order on Truth Social

By Daniel Hampton
Published October 29, 2025 9:21 PM ET

President Donald Trump uncorked another startling social media post on Wednesday night, alerting the globe that he has ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's department to ramp up testing of nuclear weapons.

Trump took to his Truth Social platform to note that the United States has more nuclear weapons than any other country, but warned that its adversaries are catching up.

"This was accomplished, including a complete update and renovation of existing weapons, during my First Term in office," he wrote. "Because of the tremendous destructive power, I HATED to do it, but had no choice! Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-nuclear-2674248434/

So this simpleton wants to see things go boom...............

As a kid growing up in Ogden/ Hill Air Force Base in the early 50s's because my dad was stationed in Utah, before going to Japan, my mother use to tell me later on what it was like to live down wind of that shit................we were exposed to the fall out that how people got the name "downwinders"

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Trump uncorks startling nuclear bomb order on Truth Social (Original Post) turbinetree Oct 2025 OP
He is itching to use our nukes. mr715 Oct 2025 #1
What could possibly go wrong? Ocelot II Oct 2025 #2

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