If U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Richard Correll thought he was going to have an easy confirmation hearing on Thursday to become the commander of America¡¯s nuclear forces, those hopes surely vanished at 9:04 p.m. the night before he was to testify.

That was when U.S. President Donald Trump shocked the world by announcing on social media that he had asked the U.S. military to ¡°start testing our Nuclear Weapons,¡± saying the United States could not fall behind Russia and China.

¡°Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years,¡± Trump said.