Poland's President Andrzej Duda has urged the U.S. to deploy nuclear weapons in his country. Duda told the Financial Times that NATO's borders moved eastwards in 1999, the year Warsaw joined, so the bloc's nuclear infrastructure should follow suit. Newsweek has contacted the U.S. State Department for comment.

Poland has previously said it would be ready to host U.S. weapons under a nuclear arms sharing programme, and Polish policymakers have also more recently expressed interest in an

Moving the weapons would serve as a deterrent against potential Russian aggression but is likely to be perceived as “highly provocative” in Moscow.