This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel.

I welcome my good colleague,

Henry Sikolsky,

the executive director

at Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center, I need Henry's

very careful knowledge of nuclear weapons because of remarks made by the President of the United

States significant figures in his administration, such as Admiral Coral, who's being interviewed

for the job of Stratcom, that is the strategic weapons themselves,

also remarks by the Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitri Peskov.

We begin with the president's remarks on true social.

I read the quote, because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed

the Department of War to start testing nuclear weapons, capital N, capital W, on an equal basis.

That process will begin immediately. Henry, a very good day to you. Since the President's remarks

appeared, there is a ferocious inquiry as to what is behind the remarks about testing nuclear weapons equal basis. Your first reaction, can you recall it, Henry, when you read these remarks? Good evening to you. Good evening. Great to be on your program again.

I think my first thoughts were, is he going to go for what's called a full yield nuclear test

underground or not? And it seemed that that's where he was headed because there has long been a campaign by one of the

national labs, Los Alamos, to resume that kind of testing, which ended in 1992.

There's another lab, Livermore, that has a very large computing capacity that says

that's a waste of money in time.

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