“There are dozens of flights a day, and it’s very difficult to track down that special flight. “They easily fit in a regular Il-76 transport plane,” Alesin said.
Aliaksandr Alesin, an independent Minsk-based military analyst, said the weapons use containers that emit no radiation and could have been flown into Belarus without Western intelligence seeing it. The devices are compact: Used on bombs, missiles and artillery shells, they could be discreetly carried on a truck or plane. bomb in Hiroshima in World War II was 15 kilotons. Unlike nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles that can destroy entire cities, tactical nuclear weapons for use against troops on the battlefield can have a yield as small as about 1 kiloton. intelligence officials as saying they had no reason to doubt Putin’s claim about the delivery of the first batch of the weapons to Belarus and noted it could be challenging for the U.S. While some experts doubt the claims by Putin and Lukashenko, others note that Western intelligence might be unable to monitor such movement.Įarlier this month, CNN quoted U.S. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg denounced Moscow’s rhetoric as “dangerous and reckless,” but said earlier this month the alliance hasn’t seen any change in Russia’s nuclear posture.
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