{"id":6739,"date":"2023-03-28T11:31:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T06:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6739"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T11:12:19","slug":"what-are-tactical-nuclear-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-are-tactical-nuclear-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Tactical Nuclear Weapons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Tactical Nuclear Weapons:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nuclear weapons<\/strong>, just like other weapons, can be <strong>categorised into two types \u2014<\/strong> strategic and tactical.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strategic Nuclear Weapons:<\/strong> They refer to nuclear weapons that have <strong>bigger objectives, <\/strong>such as <strong>destroying cities or larger targets,<\/strong> with <strong>larger war-waging objectives<\/strong> in mind.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tactical Nuclear Weapons (TNWs):<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>They are nuclear weapons <strong>used for specific tactical gains on the battlefield<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They are intended to <strong>devastate enemy targets in a specific area<\/strong> <strong>without causing widespread destruction<\/strong> and <strong>radioactive fallout.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These are designed for <strong>use in battle<\/strong> as part of an attack <strong>with conventional weapon forces.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These <strong>warheads can be delivered via a variety of missiles<\/strong>, torpedoes and gravity bombs from naval, air or ground forces. They could even be simply <strong>driven into an area and detonated.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The explosive yield<\/strong> of tactical nuclear weapons can <strong>range from under one kiloton to about 100 kilotons<\/strong>, whereas strategic nuclear weapons can have a yield of up to one thousand kilotons.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Delivery systems<\/strong> for tactical nuclear weapons also tend to <strong>have shorter ranges,<\/strong> <strong>typically under 310 miles (500 kilometres<\/strong>), compared with strategic nuclear weapons, which are typically designed to cross continents.<\/li>\n<li>They are the <strong>least-regulated category of nuclear weapons<\/strong> covered <strong>in arms control agreements.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Countries possessing TNWs:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nine countries<\/strong> have tactical nuclear weapons, according to the Federation of American Scientists.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>Russia, the United States, China, France, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Russia<\/strong> has a stockpile of an estimated <strong>2,000 tactical nuclear missiles.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The U<strong>.<\/strong>S. has an estimated <strong>200 tactical nuclear<\/strong> <strong>bombs<\/strong>, half of which are <strong>at bases in Europe.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a Nuclear Weapon?<\/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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/russia-will-deploy-tactical-nuclear-weapons-in-belarus-says-putin-3893508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Russia Will Deploy Tactical Nuclear Weapons In Belarus, Says Putin<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tactical Nuclear Weapons (TNWs) are nuclear weapons used for specific tactical gains on the battlefield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6739","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\/6739","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=6739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}