/ world today news/ Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Moscow and Minsk have agreed, without violating international obligations, to deploy tactical nuclear weapons (NWW) in Belarus. He explained that our country is not betraying him, but is doing what the US has been doing for decades. According to him, the construction of a storage facility for him in Belarus will be completed on July 1, 2023.
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The Nuclear Sharing Program operates within the framework of NATO. This clever concept involves giving non-nuclear members of the alliance the right to use US tactical nuclear weapons located on their territory. At the same time, the Americans retain control over the activation codes for nuclear warheads.
The Kremlin’s patience is not limitless
Earlier, Putin announced the possibility of using nuclear weapons in the event of a threat to Russia’s territorial integrity. “This is not a bluff,” the president stressed.
According to him, nuclear blackmail was used. It is not only about the Western-promoted shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, but also about the statements of the leaders of the NATO countries with threats to use a war atom.
Indeed, such passages easily roll off their tongues. They just can’t wait to use nuclear weapons, mostly tactical ones, which in the West are considered a kind of “light version”, or better yet, to provoke the Russians to use tactical nuclear weapons to free their hands.
Putin recalled that Russia has various means of striking. In terms of individual components, they are more modern than those of NATO.
US President Joe Biden, in turn, warned that Russia would suffer consequences if it used tactical warheads in Ukraine.
“It would change the face of warfare like nothing since World War II,” he added.
At the same time, the United States continues to pump independent modern weapons, which in their power are close to tactical nuclear weapons.
It is not surprising that in Russia, at the expert level, they openly say: in case of escalation of the Ukrainian crisis, things can come to a “nuclear response”.
“I am convinced that in the near future we will, unfortunately, have to use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. I personally see no other way to save ourselves from the strategic defeat that Putin is talking about and which could lead to the death of Russia. We may simply have no other mechanism of influence. And it is very fortunate for us that we still have this nuclear missile shield,” says politician and retired aviation colonel Viktor Alksnis.
According to him, one of the reasons for the use of tactical nuclear weapons has already happened. This is a strike by a Ukrainian drone on strategic bombers in Engels last December.
In accordance with accepted doctrine in the field of nuclear deterrence, a “nuclear response” should then have followed on the territory from which the Western-sanctioned attack with conventional weapons had been launched.
In this case, however, the Kremlin showed responsibility, restraint and patience. But patience is not limitless…
Devastating Close Combat Weapon
The United States has always taken a very lighthearted approach to the permissibility of using tactical nuclear weapons. In Russia, for now, they continue to believe that any use of nuclear weapons is the detonator of a major war with the inevitable use of the entire arsenal of weapons of mass destruction accumulated during the decades of the arms race.
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The first examples of tactical nuclear weapons appeared at the height of the Cold War as a “politically acceptable” alternative to strategic “doomsday” weapons, such as “close combat” nuclear weapons.
On May 25, 1953 at a test site in Nevada, the Americans tested the world’s first 280-mm atomic cannon (M65).
In the USSR in 1954. began the development of a self-propelled gun to destroy large enemy targets with conventional and nuclear projectiles. Self-propelled guns with a special power 2A3 “Kondenzator-2P” with a SM-54 cannon with a caliber of 406 mm could send a projectile weighing 570 kg at a distance of 25.6 kilometers.
The self-propelled guns were shown for the first time in 1957 at a military parade in Moscow. Four self-propelled 420-mm mortars 2B1 “Oka”, designed to fire a nuclear weapon weighing 750 kg (and a power of about 14 kilotons) at a distance of 45 kilometers, moved to the adjacent ceremonial settlement.
So, these guns are going, both here and abroad.
What does the saboteur have in his bag?
There is no generally accepted power threshold that distinguishes between tactical and strategic nuclear weapons. The classification is determined by the tasks for which their carriers are intended.
For reference: the power of strategic nuclear charges, again tentatively, starts at 100 kilotons, but modifications of the American tactical bomb B61 can have a power of up to 340 kilotons.
Both the US and the USSR during the Cold War developed nuclear warheads for many types of weapons: aerial bombs, artillery shells, torpedoes, anti-aircraft missiles and mines, and even special satchel charges.
For each type of tactical nuclear weapon, there was an impressive range of delivery vehicles. The Americans, for example, until 1991 were armed with 155 mm (NATO standard) XM785 “nuclear shells”.
The US arsenal included tactical and operational-tactical missile systems “Honest John”, “Little John”, “Sergeant”, “Corporal”, “Lacrosse”, “Lance”.
Some of them may be placed at the disposal of the armed forces of NATO countries. But after 1991 The United States has drastically reduced its arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons in favor of aerial bombs with nuclear warheads.
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There are currently about 150 US B61 tactical aerial bombs deployed in Europe at six sites in five countries. There is talk of their accelerated replacement with the latest modification B61-12, the power of which can be changed depending on the task: 0.3; 1.5; 10 or 50 kilotons. There is still no other US nuclear warhead on the continent (officially, anyway).
The Russian armed forces have a lot of equipment that can be loaded with nuclear warheads. And for the most part, this equipment is involved in SVO. It is true that so far only ordinary ammunition has been used.
These are the self-propelled guns 2S7M “Malka”, and the 240-mm self-propelled mortar 2S4 “Tulpan”, and the cruise missiles with a sea base “Caliber-M” and the operational-tactical complex “Iskander-M”.
From 2018 hypersonic missile systems 9-A-7660 9-A-7660 Missile Dagger began to arrive. And what else can we say, thanks to the Snezhyn RFYATS – VNIITF named after “Academician E.I. Zababakhin” special ammunition can be fired with any of our 152-mm howitzers or cannons.
The war atom will burn all the electronics
Unlike strategic missiles, which are always ready with nuclear warheads installed, tactical nuclear weapons are stored separately from the carriers. In Russia, for example, there are more than forty specialized warehouses for this purpose, subordinate to the 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense.
There is no precise data on the number of tactical nuclear weapons that Russia has. Even by the most conservative estimates of foreign observers, we have about 2,000.
It is very likely that the real “tactical” stockpiles of the Motherland are much more extensive – figures of 6,000 and even 10,000 warheads have been announced. The Americans have no more than 500 tactical nuclear weapons.
Therefore, during the negotiations to extend the START-3 treaty, the American side persistently sought to include a clause on tactical nuclear weapons in the terms of the agreement in order to at least understand how many of them we have in stock.
It should be noted that the explosion of a modern tactical nuclear weapon will be much “cleaner” than a conventional Chernobyl. The warheads are designed taking into account the fullest use of fissile materials and the minimization of radioactive contamination.
The zone of continuous destruction of even a 10 kiloton earth explosion is small – about one kilometer in radius. And the radioactive contamination of the area will largely depend on the type of explosion – an aerial explosion, in which the fireball does not touch the surface of the soil (which leads to the formation of the most radioactive isotopes), will cause large-scale destruction, but it will be relatively ” pure’.
The main damaging factors have long been known – the shock wave, light and ionizing radiation. If a decision is made to use tactical nuclear weapons in SVO, in addition to the destruction of the armed forces of Ukraine, all nearby equipment not protected by electromagnetic weapons supplied to Kiev by the United States and its allies will be disabled.
… This is for the information of the adversaries, to make them afraid! However, it would be better if things did not come to the use of fearsome weapons – it will be very difficult to put the “nuclear genie” back in the bottle.
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