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President Donald Trump appeared to suggest the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades, saying it would be on an "equal basis" with Russia and China.
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Trump said the U.S. will test nuclear weapons "on an equal basis" with Russia and China. None of the three countries has tested live nuclear weapons since the 1990s.
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The U.S. has not conducted a physical nuclear test since 1992 after President George H.W. Bush entered into a unilateral moratorium on nuclear weapons testing.
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Trump said he had instructed the Pentagon — rebranded as the "Department of War" — to resume nuclear testing.
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Police raids in Brazil have killed more than 100 people, including four officers, making it the deadliest police operation in the nation's recent history. Rio de Janeiro Gov. Cláudio Castro says they seized weapons, drugs, and arrested roughly 80 alleged gang members. NBC News' Ellison Barber has more on the deadly operation.
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President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met for their first face-to-face talks in six years in South Korea.
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