<p>  President Donald Trump's allies are arguing that the United States should resume nuclear weapons testing to send a message to its adversaries. Robert Peters, a research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind the highly controversial Project 25, argued in a recent article "that the US must be ready to test nuclear weapons at the Nevada National Security Site within 3-6 months of being ordered to conduct a nuclear explosive test." "Such a test would occur if there were unforeseen 'political' reasons why a President would want to test one as part of a signaling campaign […]</p>