French magazine Le Point said Russia will deploy the smallest atomic bomb in its arsenal in allied Belarus. These weapons will remain under Russian control, just as similar bombs are stored in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Turkey and Italy.
Such weapons are small in size and have an explosive power 50 times lower than the 1945 bomb dropped on Hiroshima and a thousand times less than those of the nuclear warheads currently in France. The weapons, which are used against military targets alone, are not included in any nuclear arms control treaty.