After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Belarus inherited strategic missiles, hundreds of tactical nuclear weapons and highly enriched uranium – yet chose to give them up and join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as a non-nuclear-weapon state. In this episode of the Arms Control Primer, Elena Sokova and Dr Alexander Sorg examine Belarus’s role in the Soviet nuclear programme, the disarmament process that followed independence, and the implications of Russia’s recent deployment of nuclear-capable systems on Belarusian territory.
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