Christian Whiton, a former State Department adviser to President George W. Bush and Trump, told The New York Times that “it would be negligent to field nuclear weapons of novel designs that we have never tested in the real world.”

“Washington must test new nuclear weapons for reliability and safety in the real world for the first time since 1992,” former US national security advisor Robert O’Brien insisted.

“The reality is the United States has commandeered NATO in the European Union as a proxy army, and a slave economic force, and made Europe to be puppets and pawns of American foreign policy," noted former US Army psychological warfare officer and US State Department counterterrorism analyst Scott Bennett. “The American government's agenda – and specifically the banks, globalists and military-industrial complex, and the CIA have – all pursued an agenda to drive the break-up of Russia and the theft of its resources since 1990.”

“Resuming U.S. nuclear testing is technically and militarily unnecessary,” according to Daryl Kimball, the executive director of the Arms Control Association. “Moreover, it would lead to a global chain reaction of nuclear testing, raise global tensions, and blow apart global nonproliferation efforts at a time of heightened nuclear danger.”

“Questioned on 3 June at a campaign hustings in the marginal town of Bury, Starmer said: ‘Of course I would be prepared to use’ nuclear weapons,” reported journalist Richard Norton-Taylor for the website Declassified UK. “Surrounded by candidates who were armed forces veterans, the Labour leader doubled down: ‘It’s a vital part of our defence. And of course, that means we have to be prepared to use it.’”

“The 2021 Integrated Review announced that the 2010 [nuclear disarmament] commitments could no longer be met due to the current security environment,” the document continues, without defining the alleged circumstances it puts forward as an excuse to announce the expansion of its nuclear stockpile by 40%. “As such, it announced that the cap on the nuclear stockpile will now be raised and that information on operational stockpile, deployed missiles and deployed warheads would no longer be made available.”

“Quick update on how things are going with the election,” wrote user Chris Bakke, posting a link to New York Times opinion writer Ross Douthat’s editorial “Does America Need a President?”

“Real question … since we obviously haven’t had one for a while,” responded Musk, quoting the user.