President Putin’s promise to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus is likely just the latest attempt to use nuclear threats to intimidate Ukraine’s allies, military analysts tell NBCNews.
But promising to station his tactical nuclear weapons there will not give Putin any real advantage on the battlefield in Ukraine, said Andrey Baklitskiy, senior researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, based in Geneva.
Given the lack of any major breakthroughs in Russia’s current ground offensive, its nuclear arsenal remains one of the few aspects of its military power that still commands a measure of respect in the West, said Christopher Tuck, an expert in conflict and security at King’s College London. Both the National Security Council and State Department told NBC News in separate statements that the U.S. had “not seen any reason to adjustSpeaking to reporters Tuesday, President Joe Biden called Putin’s plans “worrisome.”
The U.S. said Tuesday that it will be withholding some nuclear data from Russia in response to Moscow’s decision not to provide data required under the New START Treaty. Putin unilaterallyRussia and China have criticized the U.S., Britain and Australia for agreeing to a
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