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→Belarus the Nuclear-Weapon State: A Likely Nuclear Target Structure
Belarus is considered a "nuclear-weapon state" (NWS) since it has [[nuclear weapon]] capabilities making it one of the [[Nuclear target structures#Primary Targets|primary targets]] among the world's major [[nuclear target structures]] in a possible [[nuclear war]].<ref>[http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/belarus/nuclear/ ''Nuclear Country Profile''], [[Washington, DC]]: Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), Last updated: May, 2014. Accessed January 15, 2015</ref>
Belarus is considered a "nuclear-weapon state" (NWS) since it has [[nuclear weapon]] capabilities making it one of the [[Nuclear target structures#Primary Targets|primary targets]] among the world's major [[nuclear target structures]] in a possible [[nuclear war]].<ref>[http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/belarus/nuclear/ ''Nuclear Country Profile''], [[Washington, DC]]: Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), Last updated: May, 2014. Accessed January 15, 2015</ref>
On February 27, 2022 voters in Belarus approved a constitutional amendment that essentially renounced the country’s neutral and nonnuclear status. The new amendment does not approve the immediate deployment of nuclear weapons, but it does allow the country to host Russian weapons at bases in Belarus. [[President Lukashenko]] has indicated that Belarus would be willing to do so if the country were “threatened by [[the West]].” Specifically, he noted that he could ask Russia to return nuclear weapons to Belarus
if [[NATO]] transferred nuclear weapons to [[Poland]] or [[Lithuania]], nations that share borders with Belarus.<ref> Matthias Williams and David Ljunggren, “Belarus referendum approves proposal to renounce non-nuclear status,” ''[[Reuters]]'', February 27, 2022.</ref>
==Economy==
==Economy==