Russia has begun deploying short-range nuclear weapons in Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus, has stated that his count...
Russia has begun deploying short-range nuclear weapons in Belarus
Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus, has stated that his country has begun to receive small Russian short-range nuclear weapons, which, according to him, are three times more powerful than the type of atomic bomb that the United States deployed against Japan.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, this action is the very first step of its sort that Russia has taken.
On Friday of last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin made the statement that his country will keep a close eye on the nuclear weapons that are going to be placed in Belarus after that country has prepared specific storage facilities for those weapons.
The agreement to station weapons in Belarus was revealed by the President of Russia in March. He made the connection between the decision and the manner in which the United States has been delivering short-range nuclear weapons to European countries over the course of the previous several years.
The United States of America has already voiced its disapproval of Putin's decision, despite the fact that it has stated it has no intentions to alter its stance on nuclear weapons and that it has not observed any indications that Russia intends to deploy nuclear weapons in the near future.
