China News Service, July 18th, comprehensive report, on the 16th local time, a number of top US scientists jointly issued an open letter calling on US President Trump to abandon plans to restart nuclear weapons tests. The letter stated that such tests would accelerate the arms race and increase the risk of nuclear war.
Data Map: US President Trump. China News Agency reporter Chen Meng
According to reports, on July 16, 1945, the United States conducted the explosion test of the world's first atomic bomb in New Mexico. Seventy-five years later, about 70 scientists, including six Nobel Prize winners, published an open letter in Science magazine, questioning Trump’s intention to resume the nuclear test that had stopped for 28 years.
The letter said that restarting nuclear testing "may increase the risk of triggering a nuclear arms race and unintentionally or intentionally triggering nuclear war... Nuclear weapons are harmful to humans and the planet. Scientists have always opposed nuclear weapons, and we call on the US government to dispel the idea of conducting nuclear tests."
The open letter also pointed out that during the "Cold War", the United States conducted 1030 nuclear tests, more than all the nuclear tests conducted by other nuclear powers in the world combined.
In 1992, the United States suspended nuclear testing and signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1996, but the United States has not formally ratified the treaty. Scientists urged the US government to approve the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and called on the Senate to pass legislation to prevent funding from being invested in nuclear tests.
According to previous reports, the US "Washington Post" said in late May 2020 that the Trump administration discussed the possibility of conducting nuclear weapons tests, which caused international concern.