Belarus has started taking delivery of Russian tactical nuclear weapons, Lukashenko says

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Open this photo in gallery: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, in Moscow, on May 25.SPUTNIK/Reuters Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said his country has started taking delivery of Russian tactical nuclear weapons, some of which he said were three times more powerful than the atomic bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The deployment is Moscow’s first move of such warheads – shorter-range less powerful nuclear weapons that could potentially be used on the battlefield – outside Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. “We have missiles and...