A Strategic Blunder disguised as strength
“… North Korea, the only nation conducting actual nuclear tests in recent years, is hardly the standard by which America should calibrate its strategic posture.
What Trump has done, whether intentionally or not, is hand a propaganda victory to Beijing and Moscow while potentially accelerating the very nuclear competition he claims to be responding to. The United States maintains nuclear superiority not through explosive testing but through sophisticated computer modeling and subcritical experiments—technologies in which we possess an overwhelming advantage. By resuming testing, we invite our rivals to close gaps in their capabilities while squandering the moral high ground that comes from restraint.
Catholic Critique 