Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said the US administration currently sees no reason to change the readiness level of its strategic forces due to any nuclear weapons-related action by the Russian Federation and Belarus. It has been reported TASS.
He stressed that he would not go into details about the intelligence data. Ryder added that the Pentagon has seen reports in the media from Russia that “they intend to do this.”
Thus, answering the question of whether the United States can confirm the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus, he commented on the words of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko about his readiness to use “the entire arsenal”. Attack on the Republic.
Ryder noted that the American side did not see anything that would force Washington to change the alignment of its strategic forces.
Before that, Lukashenka declarationMinsk can use tactical nuclear weapons supplied to it by Russia in the event of an attack against it.
Previously, physicists calculated where this works best to hide from a nuclear explosion.