2025-10-30: Russia Roundup

So far today: 2025-10-30 3:27pm GMT

ptcnews.tv (2025-10-30). Trump directs nuclear testing in US after 33 years over Russia, China moves. ptcnews.tv PTC News Desk: In a significant policy shift, US President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that the United States will immediately resume nuclear testing in a bid to match other nuclear powers with a special mention of Russia and China. | In a post on social media platform Truth Social, Trump said that because of other countries' testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis and that the process will begin immediately. | "The United States has more Nuclear Weapons than any other country. Russia is second and China a distant third, but will be…

rana Mitter, Professor of U.s.-asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School (2025-10-30). Xi-Trump summit: Trade, Taiwan and Russia still top agenda for China and US presidents — 6 years after last meeting. | Rana Mitter

iain Boyd, Director of the Center For National Security Initiatives, Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder (2025-10-30). Nuclear-powered missiles: An aerospace engineer explains how they work — and what Russia's claimed test means for global strategic stability. | Iain Boyd

| Reuters | (2025-10-30). Russia tests nuclear-capable Poseidon super torpedo. tribune.com.pk Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia had successfully tested the Poseidon nuclear-powered super torpedo that military analysts say is capable of devastating coastal regions by triggering vast radioactive ocean swells. | As United States President Donald Trump has toughened both his rhetoric and his stance on Russia, Putin has publicly flexed his nuclear muscles with the test of a new Burevestnik cruise missile on October 21 and nuclear launch drills on October 22. | There are few confirmed details about the Poseidon, named after the ancient Greek god of the sea, but it is essentially…

peter Rutland, Professor of Government, Wesleyan University (2025-10-30). Beware the Anglo-Saxons! Why Russia likes to invoke a medieval tribe when talking about the West. | Peter Rutland

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