Less than an hour before meeting Xi Jinping, US President Trump ordered the US Department of Defence to resume nuclear testing after 33 years. In 2025, the options are clear for New Delhi: adhere to a self-imposed ban on nuclear weapons testing even as rival powers continue to test their weapons, or New Delhi can declare it is has no reason to halt its nuclear weapons program at a time when the Americans have expressed their intent to conduct their own tests, and even more importantly, have admitted that powers hostile to India have been testing their weapons while we have not.