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Posted: 1st November 2025

Trump announces resumption of nuclear testing.
Senator Markey tries to block this in the Senate
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‘House of Dynamite’ movie a wake-up call

On October 30, President Trump ordered the U.S. military to immediately restart the process for testing nuclear weapons. If this proceeds according to his order, the testing (detonating) of nuclear weapons will end a 33 year-long U.S. moratorium on nuclear testing. This would most likely prompt Russia and perhaps China to also resume nuclear testing and escalate a nuclear arms race that is consuming over $100 billion per year and increasing the risks of nuclear war.

Senator Ed Markey, Co-President of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, has responded by announcing the introduction of No Nuclear Testing Act, which would use Congress’s power of the purse to deny the Trump administration from restarting nuclear testing.

“If President Trump resumes U.S. nuclear testing, it will be a mistake of radioactive proportions,” said Senator Markey. “The United States has not conducted a nuclear test since 1992, and there is absolutely no need to resume. A Trumpatomics plan would provoke Russia and China to resume nuclear testing, and China in particular has much more to gain from this than does the United States. This is a reckless directive from Trump that will only make the country and the world less safe and lead to a terrible new nuclear arms race.”

Watch Senator Markey’s video opposing President Trump’s announcement on resumption of US nuclear tests.“The No Nuclear Testing Act would use Congress’s power of the purse to deny the Trump administration from restarting nuclear testing,” says Senator Markey. “We should not simply ignore the terrible lessons of the Cold War and expose a new generation of Americans to the horrors of radiation sickness. We will not learn anything new about the nuclear stockpile from new tests; we will only endanger our health and security.”
 

House of Dynamite and US/Russia nuclear arms control

On October 27, Senator Markey highlighted the risks of nuclear war explored in the new thriller movie ‘A House of Dynamite’, and used this to support his call for the US and Russia to enter into nuclear risk reduction and disarmament negotiations.

In an op ed I’m a U.S. senator. ‘House of Dynamite’ exposes a brutal truth (MSNBC, October 27, 2025), Senator Ed Markey, defends the premise of the movie that US ballistic missile interceptors would not be able to intercept and destroy all incoming Russian nuclear missiles in a potential nuclear attack. The US Missile Defense Agency, in contrast, has claimed that their tests of ballistic missile interceptors has had 100% accuracy and success.

“Rather than investing even more in the fool’s gold of missile defense, such as by spending trillions on President Donald Trump’s delusional Golden Dome, we need to focus on what works: arms reductions,” says Senator Markey. “Agreements such as the U.S.-Russian New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, have reduced nuclear arsenals about 90 percent and lowered the nuclear threat much more effectively than missile defense ever will.”

“As the film points out, however, this decades long arms reduction effort is on life support. We must freeze arsenals in place, not increase them.”

“So let us not treat this film as mere entertainment. Let us heed it as testimony. “A House of Dynamite” reminds us that more nuclear weapons do not make us safer. We must stop acting as if we can build an impenetrable umbrella and instead treat the threat for what it is: an existential gamble we cannot afford. The real answer is not more technology, but fewer weapons,” concluded Senator Markey.Yours sincerely
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