{"id":21771,"date":"2024-03-22T04:48:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T23:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21771"},"modified":"2025-04-06T15:13:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T09:43:51","slug":"tactical-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tactical-nuclear-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Tactical Nuclear Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Tactical Nuclear Weapons<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Nuclear weapons, just like other weapons, can be categorised into\u00a0two types: strategic and tactical.<\/li>\n<li>Strategic Nuclear Weapons: They refer to nuclear weapons that have\u00a0bigger objectives, such as\u00a0destroying cities or larger targets, with larger war-waging objectives in mind.<\/li>\n<li>Tactical Nuclear Weapons (TNWs):\n<ul>\n<li>They are nuclear weapons\u00a0used for specific tactical gains\u00a0on the\u00a0battlefield.<\/li>\n<li>They are intended to\u00a0devastate enemy targets in a specific area\u00a0without causing\u00a0widespread destruction\u00a0and\u00a0radioactive fallout.<\/li>\n<li>These are designed for\u00a0use in battle as part of an attack\u00a0with conventional weapon forces.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These warheads can be\u00a0delivered via a variety of missiles, torpedoes, and gravity bombs from\u00a0naval, air, or ground forces. They could even be simply driven into an area and detonated.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0explosive yield of tactical nuclear weapons can\u00a0range from under one kiloton to about 100 kilotons, whereas strategic nuclear weapons can have a yield of up to one thousand kilotons.<\/li>\n<li>Delivery systems for tactical nuclear weapons also tend to\u00a0have shorter ranges,\u00a0typically under 310 miles\u00a0(500 kilometres), compared with strategic nuclear weapons, which are typically designed to cross continents.<\/li>\n<li>They are the\u00a0least-regulated\u00a0category of nuclear weapons covered in arms control agreements.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Countries possessing TNWs:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nine countries have tactical nuclear weapons, according to the Federation of American Scientists.<\/li>\n<li>They are\u00a0Russia, the\u00a0United States, China, France, the\u00a0United Kingdom,\u00a0Pakistan, India, Israel, and\u00a0North Korea.<\/li>\n<li>Russia has a stockpile of an\u00a0estimated 2,000 tactical nuclear missiles.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0U.S. has an estimated 200 tactical nuclear bombs, half of which are at bases in Europe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Nuclear weapons?<\/h3>\n<p>A nuclear weapon is a device that uses a nuclear reaction to create an explosion. This explosion is much more powerful than that of conventional explosives (like TNT). When a nuclear weapon explodes, it gives off four types of energy: a blast wave, intense light, heat, and radiation. Nuclear weapons can be in the form of bombs or missiles.A single nuclear weapon can destroy a city and kill most of its people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2024\/03\/14\/russia-nuclear-weapons-belarus-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Russia\u2019s Nuclear Weapons Are Now in Belarus<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tactical Nuclear Weapons are nuclear weapons used for specific tactical gains on the battlefield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}