{"id":25600,"date":"2025-04-08T22:12:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25600"},"modified":"2025-04-08T22:26:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:26:47","slug":"nuclear-testing-not-advised-trumps-nominee-says-in-senate-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25600","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Testing Not Advised, Trump\u2019s Nominee Says in Senate Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brandon Williams, the nominee to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration, said he would recommend reliance on \u201cscientific information\u201d rather than a restart of explosive testing.<\/p>\n

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Brandon Williams, President Trump\u2019s pick to become the keeper of the nation\u2019s nuclear arsenal, testified on Tuesday that he would not recommend that Mr. Trump restart explosive testing of the deadly weapons.<\/p>\n

His statement, during a confirmation hearing<\/a> before the Senate Armed Services Committee, was unexpected. Other advisers to the administration had proposed<\/a> that the president resume the test detonations for the sake of national security. The last such explosion in the United States was in 1992.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump nominated<\/a> Mr. Williams, a former Navy officer and one-term congressman from upstate New York, in January to serve as administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, which runs the nation\u2019s atomic weapons complex. It is a semiautonomous agency under the umbrella of the Energy Department.<\/p>\n

The most prominent ally of Mr. Trump to call for a testing restart is Robert C. O\u2019Brien<\/a>, who served as his national security adviser from 2019 to 2021. Last summer in Foreign Affairs magazine, he urged<\/a> that Mr. Trump, if elected to a new term, resume the detonations, arguing that such a move would help the United States \u201cmaintain technical and numerical superiority to the combined Chinese and Russian nuclear stockpiles.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On Tuesday during Mr. Williams\u2019s confirmation hearing, Senator Jacky Rosen, Democrat of Nevada<\/a>, argued pointedly against a restart, noting that her state hosted nearly 1,000 nuclear weapon tests, most of them underground, during the Cold War.<\/p>\n

She characterized her state as \u201cground zero\u201d for such tests and said that \u201cmillions of people and acres of land were contaminated by radiation\u201d during the Cold War, adding that \u201cwe must not ever return\u201d to such risky practices.<\/p>\n

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Brandon Williams, the nominee to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration, said he would recommend reliance on \u201cscientific information\u201d rather than a restart of explosive testing.Brandon Williams, President Trump\u2019s pick to become the keeper of the nation\u2019s nuclear arsenal, testified on Tuesday that he would not recommend that Mr. Trump restart explosive testing of the deadly weapons.His statement, during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, was unexpected. Other advisers to the administration had proposed that the president resume the test detonations for the sake of national security. The last such explosion in the United States was in 1992.Mr. Trump nominated Mr. Williams, a former Navy officer and one-term congressman from upstate New York, in January to serve as administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, which runs the nation\u2019s atomic weapons complex. It is a semiautonomous agency under the umbrella of the Energy Department.The most prominent ally of Mr. Trump to call for a testing restart is Robert C. O\u2019Brien, who served as his national security adviser from 2019 to 2021. Last summer in Foreign Affairs magazine, he urged that Mr. Trump, if elected to a new term, resume the detonations, arguing that such a move would help the United States \u201cmaintain technical and numerical superiority to the combined Chinese and Russian nuclear stockpiles.\u201dOn Tuesday during Mr. Williams\u2019s confirmation hearing, Senator Jacky Rosen, Democrat of Nevada, argued pointedly against a restart, noting that her state hosted nearly 1,000 nuclear weapon tests, most of them underground, during the Cold War.She characterized her state as \u201cground zero\u201d for such tests and said that \u201cmillions of people and acres of land were contaminated by radiation\u201d during the Cold War, adding that \u201cwe must not ever return\u201d to such risky practices.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25602,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25603,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25600\/revisions\/25603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}