Poland Ready to Deploy US Nuclear Weapons on Its Soil, Deputy PM Kaczynski Says

Poland Ready to Deploy US Nuclear Weapons on Its Soil, Deputy PM Kaczynski Says

Polish Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the National Security and Defence Committee Jaroslaw Kaczynski said in an interview with Germany’s Welt am Sonntag that his country is open to the deployment of American nuclear weapons on its territory.

Additionally, Poland is calling for an increase in the number of US troops in Europe.

That’s not new, the possibility of the deploy US Nuclear Weapons on Poland soil has been discussed since December 2015 by the then deputy defence minister Tomasz Szatkowski.

However, the relocation of US nuclear weapons to Poland would be “expensive, militarily unwise because it would make the weapons more vulnerable to preemptive attack, unduly provocative, and divisive within NATO,” warned Steven Pifer, former US diplomat in Poland on that moment.

According to him, such a move would require the construction of a special infrastructure that would ensure the security of the equipment and specially isolated air bunkers that would have to be built in Poland.

It also would make Poland more vulnerable to being targeted and could divide NATO allies, as some members may not agree to transfer nuclear weapons to Poland.