The president of Belarus announced this week that the country has received tactical nuclear weapons transported from Russia.<\/p>\n
President Alexander Lukashenko said Monday that the intensely-regulated weapons were brought to Belarus in October.<\/p>\n
No further information was offered on the nature of the nuclear weapons or their intended use.<\/p>\n
Tactical nuclear weapons are smaller, short-range missiles intended for use on a battlefield.<\/p>\n
Lukashenko has previously suggested that nuclear weapons brought to Belarus are intended to serve as a deterrent to NATO allies.<\/p>\n
Russia has stated that it remains in control of the nuclear weapons it provides to Belarus \u2014 its closest international ally.<\/p>\n
Lukashenko\u2019s claim has raised alarms in neighboring countries as Belarus\u2019 closeness with Russia has shifted the region\u2019s center of gravity toward Moscow.<\/p>\n
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed legislation in November de-ratifying a key international nuclear weapons treaty.<\/p>\n
The law withdraws Russia from the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, originally signed in 1996 and ratified in 2000.<\/p>\n
Russian officials have characterized the country\u2019s withdrawal from the treaty as a move toward equality with Western powers.<\/p>\n
Just days later, the Russian military reported that it successfully test launched an intercontinental ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear warheads from a new nuclear submarine.<\/p>\n
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that the Imperator Alexander III strategic missile cruiser fired the Bulava missile from an underwater position in Russia\u2019s northern White Sea and hit a target in the far-eastern region of Kamchatka. It was not immediately clear from the statement when the test launch occurred.<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital\u2019s Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n
The president of Belarus announced this week that the country has received tactical nuclear weapons transported from Russia. President Alexander Lukashenko said Monday that the intensely-regulated weapons were brought to Belarus in October. No further information was offered on the nature of the nuclear weapons or their intended use. Tactical nuclear weapons are smaller, short-range <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}