Belarus Receives Russian Nuclear Weapons and Threatens to Use Them
- Belarusian President Lukashenko claims his country has started receiving Russian tactical nuclear weapons.
- Lukashenko says the nuclear weapons are three times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Russia's deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus marks the first time Moscow has stationed such weapons outside of Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.
- Lukashenko threatens to use the nuclear weapons against any aggressor, though says he would consult Putin first.
- In addition to the tactical nuclear weapons, Belarus is setting up facilities for intercontinental nuclear missiles.