Factbox: Russia’s nuclear arsenal: how big is it and who controls it?

MOSCOW, March 25 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Russia has struck a deal with neighbouring Belarus to station tactical nuclear weapons on its territory but will not violate non-proliferation agreements. The following are details of Russia’s nuclear arsenal, how big it is and who commands it. NUCLEAR SUPERPOWER Russia, which inherited the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons, has the world’s biggest store of nuclear warheads. Putin controls around 5,977 such warheads as of 2022, compared to 5,428 controlled by U.S. President Joe Biden, according to the Federation of American Scientists. Around 1,500 of those warheads are retired…