Poland suggests hosting US nuclear weapons amid growing fears of Putin’s threats
Posted: 6th October 2022
Request is widely seen as symbolic, as moving nuclear warheads closer to Russia would make them less militarily useful
Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, in September. He said there was ‘a potential opportunity’ for Poland to take part in ‘nuclear sharing’. Photograph: Waldemar Deska/EPA
Julian Borger in Washington
Wed 5 Oct 2022 22.46 BSTPoland says it has asked to have US nuclear weapons based on its territory, amid growing fears that Vladimir Putin could resort to using nuclear arms in Ukraine to stave off a rout of his invading army.