Russia’s Deployment of Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Belarus: Implications and Deterrence

2023-06-14 05:53:00

Belarusian President Lukashenko (pictured center) has announced that the delivery of tactical nuclear weapons from Russia has begun. The photo was taken in Minsk, Belarus on March 13. Photo provided (2023 Archyde.com/Press Service of the President of the Republic of Belarus)

[１４日 ロイター] – Belarusian President Lukashenko has announced that the delivery of tactical nuclear weapons from Russia has begun. Some said it was three times more powerful than the atomic bombs the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

It is the first time Russia has deployed tactical nuclear weapons abroad since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The United States and its allies are wary of using nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war.

Lukashenko said in an interview with Russian state television broadcast on the night of the 13th that he had received missiles and bombs from Russia, and that they were more than three times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. rice field.

Belarus has a large number of nuclear storage facilities left over from the Soviet era, and five or six of them have been repaired.

He also dismissed the view that Russia’s control over the weapons would prevent it from being used quickly even if it felt it was necessary. He said he and Putin might “always” take each other’s calls.

Lukashenko is an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. It said the nuclear deployment would act as a deterrent once morest potential aggressors.

Putin announced in March that he would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

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