Srilanka, Oct. 5 -- Is the unpredictable Trump administration toying with the idea of resuming nuclear tests?

The New York Times reported on April 10 that some of Trump's senior advisers had proposed the resumption of "test denotations for the sake of national security". The last such US explosion took place in 1992.

But former US Representative Brandon Williams, (Republican-New York), the new administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which plays an integral role in the nation's US$ 1.7 trillion nuclear weapons modernisation effort, testified last April before the Senate Armed Services Committee that he would not recommend the restart of nuclear weapons testing.

The last confirmed full-scale nuclear explosiv...