Author	: Bill Kochman
Publish	: Dec. 15, 2025
Update	: Dec. 15, 2025
Parts	: 04

Synopsis:



Continuing our discussion from part two, the next question we need to ask ourselves concerns how Xi Jinping and Communist China have reacted to President Trump's claim that China is still secretly conducting underground nuclear tests. As you can imagine, China has responded in a similar way to Russia, and has denied the allegations, and maintains that it still adheres to its nuclear testing moratorium, meaning that it is not conducting any secretive underground nuclear tests in which a full-blown nuclear fission chain reaction is allowed to occur. In an October 2025 news conference which occurred at the Chinese Foreign Ministry only hours after President Trump had publicized his alarming statements, Guo Jiakun, a Ministry spokesperson, made the following comments:

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"China hopes that the U.S. will earnestly abide by and respect its obligations under the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and its commitment to suspend nuclear testing, and take concrete actions to safeguard the international nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation system and maintain global strategic balance and stability."

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Severals days after the previous statement was released by the Chinese Foreign Ministry, on November 3, 2025, Mao Ning -- who was another spokeswoman for the same Ministry -- plainly denied the accusations which had been made by President Trump five days earlier. In her remarks, Miss Ning stated the following:

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"As a permanent member of the UN Security Council and a responsible nuclear-weapon state, China is committed to peaceful development, follows a policy of 'no first use' of nuclear weapons and a nuclear strategy that focuses on self-defense, and adheres to its nuclear testing moratorium. We stand ready to work with all parties to jointly uphold the authority of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and safeguard the international nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime.

It's hoped that the U.S. will earnestly abide by its obligations under the Treaty and its commitment to a moratorium on nuclear testing, and take concrete actions to uphold the international nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime, as well as global strategic balance and stability.

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A week later on November 10, 2025, the 65th session of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization was held at the United Nations headquarters located in Vienna, Austria. China's permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Li Song, attended the session, and elaborated on China's position. Several days later, on November 13th, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted the following position on their website:

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Li Song pointed out that the Global Security Initiative and the Global Governance Initiative provide Chinese wisdom and solutions for addressing the root causes of international conflicts and achieving lasting peace and stability in the world. China is willing to work together with the international community to practice true multilateralism and uphold the international nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime, including the Treaty.

China firmly upholds the purposes and objectives of the Treaty, strictly observes its commitment to a moratorium on nuclear testing, and strongly opposes the United States’ deliberate distortions and false accusations regarding China’s nuclear policy. China urges the U.S. to earnestly fulfill its obligations under the Treaty and its commitment to a moratorium on nuclear testing, and to take concrete actions to safeguard the international nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime.

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If you have an interest in reading an English version of Communist China's full white paper regarding arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation, please proceed to the following URL. Again, I cannot guarantee that the English text of the white paper will still be accessible when you visit this web page:

http://english.scio.gov.cn/whitepapers/2025-11/27/content_118198082_5.html

From all of the information I have now shared with you, it seems that the only thing which we can really conclude, is that all three major nuclear states -- Russia, China and the United States -- deny that they have conducted any nuclear tests -- meaning full-blown nuclear explosions involving a chain reaction -- since the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty went into effect in 1996. Please note that while that is when the treaty went into effect, that does NOT mean that all nations signed on to it in that same year.

And then we have President Trump claiming that at the very least, Russia and China have broken the treaty, and perhaps Pakistan as well. North Korea is obviously already a given, and Kim Jong Un makes no effort to hide that fact. So if we are being honest with ourselves, we really do not know the truth, because all national leaders will obviously lie and deceive in order to protect their nation's secrets. As for Trump, we all know what kind of a man he is. He has a solid record of often being proud and boastful, and of constantly exaggerating and embellishing the facts when it is to his political advantage, or when it feeds his ego.

Personally, I would like to believe that what Chris Wright has stated is true, and that the United States doesn't have any intentions to conduct full-blown underground explosions. But again, we just really do not know. One possibility I've considered is the following. As many Americans know, ever since his first term in office, President Trump has had a number of problems with bending certain people to his will. This has resulted in some government officials -- including some high-ranking military personnel -- either voluntarily resigning from their positions in the Trump administration, or else being fired or pressured out of their jobs. I mean Trump's turnover rate is NOT exactly that good, right?

In short, while each US administration tries to present a unified front to the American public, what occurs behind the scenes may in fact be very different. Having said that, I am wondering if perhaps at this current time, there may be an internal power struggle occurring between President Trump -- who actually DOES intend on restarting full-blown underground nuclear tests -- and certain other people -- perhaps even U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright -- who are saying "Sorry, Mr. President, nope, we cannot possibly do that. We just cannot abrogate the CTBT. It would be very dangerous. It would hurt our credibility. It would open a global can of worms, and let the nuclear genie out of the lamp even further than it has already escaped." Such a position would obviously NOT make President Trump happy if he is truly intent on resuming underground nuclear tests, and NOT just non-critical explosions.

Of course, I am not a government insider, and I don't even work for the government, so I honestly do NOT know if there is any truth to what I have just stated. I am simply basing this theory on what has already been stated publicly by a number of different US government officials, and also on what we have already observed with Mr. Trump's ability to retain certain individuals within his administration when they disagree with his policies. And yet there is another reason why I think my theory may have a degree of merit, which I will now explain to you for your consideration.

As we learned earlier in this series, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty does NOT prevent signatories to the treaty from conducting what are referred to as non-critical explosions in order to maintain the safety and reliability of their nuclear weapons stockpiles. Therefore, being as this is the case, there is no need to ask for permission in order to conduct such tests, and there is no reason to hide such limited tests from the global community either; unless, of course, a nuclear state is doing more than it is allowed to do under the CTBT. On top of that, as we learned earlier, the United States has ALREADY conducted 20-27 such tests, with the last one having occurred in 2012.

That being the case, if President Trump's true intentions were only to resume those non-critical experiments which ended in 2012, then there would really be no need for him to announce such intentions to the world. The U.S. Energy Department could simply conduct such tests, and that would be the end of it. There would be no need for fanfare, and there would be no controversy. So this suggests to me that President Trump really DOES want to renew real, full-blown, full-chain-reaction, underground nuclear tests. If that is truly his intentions, and if some other individuals in his administration are NOT in agreement with him, that would explain why Chris Wright came out and offered a different explanation regarding what the U.S. government is planning to do at some point in the near future.

Let me emphasize again that this is just my personal theory and something which I am currently pondering as just one possibility. I mean, gosh, for all I know, Chris Wright may just be trying to conceal the government's true intentions in order to throw off adversaries such as Russia and China. However, I was not given that impression while listening to his interview. He came across to me as being a nuts and bolts, matter-of-fact kind of guy. However, let me add that there is one thing which could happen, which would convince me that I am on the right track. As much as President Trump seems to like Wright, if he suddenly resigned from being the Secretary of the U.S. Energy Department, or was in fact forced out by Trump, that would be a clear indicator of Mr. Trump's true intentions with regard to underground nuclear tests.

If that were to prove to be the case -- that is to say, that Trump is set on conducting full-blown, full-chain-reaction nuclear tests -- then in my view, there is a major problem, and an inherent danger in even all of the current talk. You see, whether or not the United States is actually going to conduct such underground tests kind of becomes a moot point in my view.

So why do I say this? Because whether we are talking about Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, India, Pakistan, Israel or any number of the other aforementioned countries which currently possess some level of nuclear technology, if they simply BELIEVE that the United States is actually doing it -- even if they never really do conduct such tests -- then that will provide those other nations with the justification they need for doing the very same thing as well. And where will that lead us to? Where will we go from there? Will it take us to the brink of a nuclear holocaust?

So you see, whether President Trump was simply speaking out of ignorance -- and was thus corrected by Chris Wright -- or actually meant what he said concerning resuming underground nuclear explosions, it may very well be that by playing with fire himself, and lighting the match through his careless words, he may have started a nuclear fire which may someday consume us all, unless humanity finally learns to live in peace with each other. I think we all realize that humanity has a very long way to go before it reaches such a level of planetary maturity, and that is worrisome.

While I have been discussing all of these distasteful things with my readers, let me emphasize again, as I did earlier in this series, that in my view, all of this nuclear weapons technology is downright evil, wicked and Satanic. It should NEVER have been invented in the first place! As I mention in "Science and Technology: The Forbidden Knowledge?", I hold the view that science and technology is a two-edged sword. Some of it can indeed be used for very good and beneficial purposes for humanity; not only in medical fields and other disciplines, but in our daily lives as well. In fact, the Bill's Bible Basics online ministry is clear proof of this very thing. As I explain in the article "The Internet: Our Final Frontier; Your Last Chance?", I have personally been using computer technology since 1993 to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ online.

But then we have the darker end of the spectrum, and all of the wicked stuff which humanity has devised to destroy and kill each other, such as nuclear weapons and other forms of WMD -- Weapons of Mass Destruction -- ICBMs, killer drones, jets, tanks, submarines, machine guns, laser weapons, etc. Such inventions originate in the deepest, darkest regions of man's heart. As we learned earlier, they are inspired by the Devil himself who is a thief, liar, deceiver, murderer and destroyer.

What is truly mind-boggling to me, is the fact that even after physically witnessing and seeing the destruction and extreme suffering they have perpetrated against their very own species, some of these wicked warmongers NEVER repent of their ungodly deeds. They continue to justify them, and will even commit more atrocities against their fellow man. We have already discussed World War 2 and the atomic bombs which were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Let us return to that subject for a moment. My dear friends, it truly saddens me to know that to this very day, certain individuals in the U.S. government and the U.S. military STILL justify those vile actions. They insist that dropping those bombs was absolutely necessary, and that by so doing, they not only saved many thousands of lives, but they supposedly shortened World War 2 by a year or two.

Furthermore, are you aware of the fact that up until the day that he died at the ripe, old age of ninety-two in 2007, Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. never repented of, or even regretted, what he had done? For those of you who don't know, during WW 2, after slowly climbing the military ranks, in 1944 he was appointed as the commander of the 509th Composite Group. It was this group which a year later would conduct the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A year prior to that, in 1943, he had assisted in the development of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. This aircraft was a four-engine propeller-driven heavy bomber that was designed for high-altitude strategic bombing.

Well, the Enola Gay -- which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 -- was just such a bomber, and it was piloted by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. In fact, as I have mentioned to my readers before, the 509th Composite Group and the Enola Gay were stationed at North Field on the island of Tinian in the Mariana Islands archipelago. A day prior to the attack on Hiroshima, Tibbets had formally named his B-29 "Enola Gay" in honor of his own mother. I have to wonder what she thought of that after learning what the aircraft had been used for. So as I said, on August 6, 1945, Tibbets and his crew dropped "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later on August 9, 1945, "Fat Man" was also dropped on Nagasaki by another aircraft which had been dubbed "Bockscar" or "Bock's Car". It was named after Captain Frederick C. Bock, who participated in the Nagasaki attack.

On a personal note, let me also add that the Mariana Islands are where I have lived for the past forty years. Furthermore, let me also inform you that at the height of World War 2, our island of Guam was occupied by Japanese forces for not quite three years. It was a horrific time for the native people of Guam, who are known as the Chamorros. This dark period was marked by imprisonment, loss of property, and in many cases, mass executions, often by beheading. Ironically, since that time eighty years ago, Japanese tourism has become one of the main revenue streams for our island, although it's been in serious decline ever since the COVID-19 pandemic.

As I likewise mention in my article called "Why I Hate War: And Exposé on Human Violence", we see something very similar happening with the Southeast Asian country of Vietnam. In other words, even though over 58,000 American soldiers died in Vietnam during the Vietnam War -- which I also opposed -- today, the United States and that country -- which is still run by a Communist government -- are trading partners. All hail to the mighty American dollar! The profit margin above all! Not! The hypocrisy of it all!

Returning to World War 2 and the bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, whenever these tragic historic events are discussed, those people who support them are quick to point out that the Japanese do not have anyone to blame but themselves for what happened to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, being as it was four years earlier on December 7, 1941 that they attacked America's Pacific Fleet which was stationed at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii.

This equally tragic wartime event has long been described by most military and government people as having been a surprise attack by the Japanese forces. However, to offer a balanced perspective here, let me mention that for many decades now, rumors have nevertheless persisted which claim that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was aware of the impending attack, but he allowed it to occur anyway, in order to justify America's entry into World War 2 the very next day.

Personally, I honestly don't know, because I was not only not born as yet when those events occurred, but I can only go by the information which is publicly available, which is rather mixed in its opinions. From the military's perspective, what occurred on December 7, 1941 was in large part due to a major intelligence failure, which itself resulted from missed clues, communication breakdowns between Army and Navy intelligence, and an underestimation of Japan's military capabilities. I will leave the conspiracy theory at that.

For my part, despite what either warring party may say to try to defend their particular position, personally, I am still left with some unanswered and rather troubling questions. For example, if the primary goal of the United States government and the U.S. Military was to intimidate the Japanese Empire, and to force them to surrender out of fear of what was going to happen to them if they chose not to surrender, why did they have to purposely drop both of the bombs over population centers? I understand that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were home to large Japanese military installations. However, it seems to me that a demonstration of the destructive power which the United States possessed in a NON-POPULATED region would have sent the very same message.

And second, why did "Fat Man" have to be dropped on Nagasaki three days later? It seems to me that dropping "Little Boy" on Hiroshima alone would have surely driven home the point to the Japanese that it was time for them to surrender. Of course, the official explanation which has been given, and which is still defended today, is that the Japanese Supreme War Council remained deadlocked on the terms of surrender and did NOT accept the Potsdam Declaration's ultimatum for unconditional surrender, despite the destruction three days earlier of Hiroshima. The United States did NOT like this delay by Japan because it wanted to end the war ASAP.

Thus, the Truman administration decided to drop yet another bomb -- and a different type at that -- on Nagasaki to not only break the will of the Japanese government, but to also demonstrate that America had plenty more atomic bombs that it could drop. In fact, I have read that America ALREADY had a third atomic bomb in waiting, just in case "Fat Man" did not convince the Japanese to surrender, and they still needed a little more motivation to do so.

Of course, there are many different opinions both pro and con regarding what happened, why it happened, and according to some people, why it should NOT have happened. According to one particular source, the truth of the matter is said to be that the USA wanted to drop BOTH bombs, because they were two DIFFERENT types of atomic weapons, and the United States wanted to determine what type of effects each of the bombs would have on a population center. Online sources indicate that "Little Boy" was an enriched uranium gun-type fission weapon, while "Fat Man" was a plutonium implosion-type nuclear weapon.

Now, I realize that no matter what I say here, there are still going to be some people -- particularly people who are associated with the military or who are super American patriots -- who will ALWAYS view the official explanations given as being logical, reasonable and justifiable. Such people are totally entrenched in their position, and there is absolutely NOTHING I can say which will ever change how they feel. However, for any of my readers who still remain on the fence regarding this issue, perhaps this next point will help you to finally decide where you stand.

This point concerns not only the horrific effects which the two devilish devices had on the Japanese population centers of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- both from the immediate atomic blasts themselves, and likewise during the aftermath period -- but precisely on WHO was most affected by them. Allow me to simply share an excerpt with you that is taken from the Wikipedia website. I think you will quickly determine what I am talking about:

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"These targets were chosen because they were large urban areas that also held significant military facilities. On 6 August, a Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima. Three days later, a Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki. Over the next two to four months, the effects of the atomic bombings killed 90,000 to 166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000 to 80,000 people in Nagasaki; roughly half the deaths occurred on the first day. For months afterward, many people continued to die from the effects of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness and malnutrition. Despite Hiroshima's sizable military garrison, estimated at 24,000 troops, some 90% of the dead were civilians."

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Please take note of that very last sentence, my friends. In my view, it is totally indefensible that 90% of the atomic blast casualties in Hiroshima were non-combatant CIVILIANS! They were NOT soldiers! The situation in Nagasaki was even worse! According to my research, well over 95% of the dead were again non-military personnel. They were non-combatant CIVILIANS! Furthermore, in Nagasaki, by the end of 1945, approximately 150 of the dead were actually identified as being soldiers! That is all! Only 150 of them! Well wait a minute! In a war, isn't it supposed to be soldier fighting against soldier? Armed combatant fighting against armed combatant? That was most certainly NOT the case here. In fact, the United States had NOT even made a land invasion, which is supposedly what these two atomic bomb attacks were trying to avoid.

The point, my friends, is that 90% to 95% or more of those hundreds of thousands of Japanese citizens who perished in those two cities were CIVILIANS. They were people just like you and me who were simply trying to live their lives. They faced the same daily struggles as you and me. They had the same dreams as you and me. They had children just like you and me. I would dare say that many of them were probably quite opposed to that wicked war, just as even today when a country goes to war, there are a lot of citizens who oppose the actions of their government. I would also dare say that most of them had probably never even seen an American, and they probably had no personal quarrel with Americans.

You see, my friends, wars are usually BETWEEN GOVERNMENTS, and NOT between the common citizens of two nations. Isn't this true today as well? Be honest with yourself. Do you have a personal quarrel with the people in every country where the American government is currently engaged in war, or fomenting revolution, or fueling civilian uprisings, or whatever it is doing over there? I dare say that you don't.

So you see, my friends, with regard to the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American government did NOT care one bit. The 240,000+ citizens who died were simply COLLATERAL DAMAGE. They had to die so that America could make its point to the Japanese government and the Japanese military. Those CIVILIANS had to be made an example of the awesome military might of the United States in order that the Japanese government would be forced to surrender. That was the American government's attitude and mentality, and it has not changed. If you think that I am exaggerating, then I urge you to consider the hundreds of thousands of CIVILIAN Iraqis who also died as COLLATERAL DAMAGE during America's ridiculous Iraq War not that long ago. Or also consider how many Vietnamese CIVILIANS died as COLLATERAL DAMAGE during the Vietnam War. I talk about this issue in the article called "Why I Hate War: And Exposé on Human Violence".

Let's me honest here, my friends. If a nation were to drop a nuclear bomb on the city of another nation today, such actions would immediately be declared a war crime, and I would think that the entire world would be very quick to condemn that nation and to shun it. Am I wrong? Yet eighty years ago, America got away with it; not once, but TWICE, and ready to do it a THIRD time if it became necessary in order to break Japanese will. How disgusting! How ungodly!

In light of these horrific World War 2 figures I've shared with you, I honestly don't see how anyone can continue to justify what America did to those two cities. Yet sadly, as we have already discussed, some very hard-hearted, callous people continue to do so to this very day. I certainly hope that you are not one of them. As we learned earlier in this series, the level of depravity of the human heart knows no bounds. Let me share two of those verses with you again:

"And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only EVIL CONTINUALLY."


"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"


While we can endlessly point our fingers and incriminate one side or the other in any given war, and try our very best in some convincing but vain way to justify what has been done, the bottom line still remains that all war is wicked, evil, diabolical and totally satanic. As we learned in part one of this series, the Apostle James made it clear that every war is basically rooted in human lust and greed. Maybe a leader wants to extend his sphere of influence by dominating some other nation. Or perhaps he wants to illegally grab some of their territory. Or maybe that leader's primary interest is in stealing some of their natural resources. It is all pure and selfish greed, and if you look deep enough, you'll find one or more of these motivations in every war that has ever been fought. As we learned earlier, the Apostle James wrote:

"From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, EVEN OF YOUR LUSTS that war in your members? YE LUST, and have not: YE KILL, AND DESIRE TO HAVE, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because YE ASK AMISS, THAT YE MAY CONSUME IT UPON YOUR LUSTS."


Please go to part four for the conclusion of this series.

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