Today, U.S. tactical nuclear weapons remain at six bases in five NATO member countries, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey.
Russia’s threat to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus has raised the specter of a new nuclear standoff with the United States and its allies in Europe. It also draws new attention to how such…
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We also have anti-air and anti-ballistic missile systems throughout Europe and specifically eastern Europe. The idea of those systems moving into Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania gave Putin the political ammunition he needed to invade Ukraine.