Tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus thrice as powerful as US bombs in Japan

The tactical nuclear weapons that Russia is deploying in Belarus are three times as powerful as bombs used by the United States in Japan’s Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told the Rossiya-1 TV channel.

"We have missiles and bombs. A bomb will be three times as powerful as [the ones dropped on] Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where one blast killed some 250,000 people, including over 80,000 who died in an instant," he said. "God forbid those weapons from ever being used."