A look at Russia’s nuclear arsenal as Moscow to place nuke arms in Belarus

President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said that Russia is preparing to station tactical nuclear weapons in the neighboring Belarus. This marks the country’s latest attempt to use the threat of a nuclear war to ramp up tensions with the US and NATO over the invasion of Ukraine. Putin announced that the stationing of nuclear weapons in Belarus would not violate nuclear non-proliferation agreements. Belarus is a landlocked country, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. While Belarus’s neighbouring countries are part of NATO and…