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According to Kommersant newspaper , “the discussion about the deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus, which was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin, does not stop in the world.
In addition to the angry statements of Western governments, experts are also discussing this topic, trying to calculate the possibilities of where these weapons are located.
Director of the “Strategic Nuclear Weapons of Russia” project, senior researcher of the UN Institute for Disarmament Research, Pavel Podvig, recalled that in the times of the USSR, there were stockpiles of nuclear weapons in Belarus, but it is unlikely that would all be kept in good condition so that they could be put into service.
“Their modernization would be visible and I'm sure that the people who searched on satellite images … And build a new warehouse in three months is extremely difficult , it is quite a complicated engineering device… Given that back in December, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that there are no plans to deploy nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus and that no one has found the construction site yet, we can assume that it has not yet started, “- noted the expert.
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