CIA Director Warns Not to Take for Granted Threat of Russia Using Tactical Nuclear Weapons
CIA Director William Burns Thursday, (4/14/2022) in the United States asks not to underestimate Russias threat to use tactical nuclear warhead weapons for the battlefield in Ukraine (Source: Straits Times) Author : EDWIN SHRI BIMO | Editor : GADING PERSADA
WASHINGTON, KOMPAS.TV – Director of the United States Intelligence Service CIA William Burns on Thursday (14/4/2022) in the United States (USA) asked so as not to underestimate the Russian threat to use weapons tactical nuclear warheads for the battlefield in Ukraine.
However, as reported by Straits Times , Friday (15/4/2022), Burns says the CIA hasnt seen much practical evidence yet reinforces fears that Russia will use tipped weapons tactical nuclear explosion.
Burns public comment this time, the most extensive since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, underscoring concerns that the biggest attack on a European country since 1945 was risk increasing the possibility of using nuclear weapons by Russia.
As is well known, tactical nuclear weapons are weapons that can used in a relatively close shooting range, no such as strategic nuclear weapons with long-range firepower and often even intercontinental.
In the Cold War, tactical nuclear weapons were bombs that could launched by the two superpowers, the US and the Soviet Union, within a distance of far away, to their respective countries.
However, the term tactical includes many types of weapons, including bombs smaller ones and missiles used as battlefield weapons war.
Russia is estimated to have around 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons or tactical nuclear warhead.
This warhead can be placed on various types of missiles usually used to deliver conventional explosives.
TOPOL M AND AVANGARD MISSILE UNITS Russias 9K720 Iskander short-range ballistic missile manufactured by the US called the SS-26 Stone and can be fitted with a tactical nuclear warhead. CIA Director William Burns Thursday, (4/14/2022) in the United States asks not to underestimate Russias threat to use tactical nuclear warhead weapons for the battlefield in Ukraine (Source: Vitaly Kuzmin/Wikipedia) Burns speaking at Georgia Tech about the potential for despair and setbacks faced by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who his troops suffered heavy losses and were forced to withdraw from several northern Ukraine after failing to take Kyiv.
