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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.
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