Polish President Karol Navrocki has acknowledged that his nation ought to begin growing nuclear weapons, specifying {that a} future nuclear arsenal can be geared toward Russia. Describing himself as “an awesome supporter of Poland becoming a member of the nuclear undertaking,” he argued that Warsaw ought to develop its future safety technique “based mostly on nuclear potential.” “We should work in direction of this objective in order that we will start the work. We’re a rustic proper on the border of an armed battle. The aggressive, imperial angle of Russia towards Poland is well-known,” he added. His assertion follows a number of reported requests by Polish officers to enter right into a nuclear sharing settlement with the US, underneath which the Polish Air Pressure can be given wartime entry to American warheads saved on the nation’s territory.
It stays unsure whether or not path to fielding nuclear weapons referred to by President Navrocki entailed getting into a nuclear sharing settlement, changing into a threshold nuclear weapons state like Germany and Japan, or growing an impartial nuclear arsenal like France. On April 1, 2025, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Workers nominee Dan Caine acknowledged that the US was prepared to contemplate getting into into nuclear sharing agreements with extra of the nation’s NATO allies, fuelling hypothesis that offers with Poland and Finland could also be into account. A sharing settlement with the UK to equip its deliberate F-35A fighters with B61-12 nuclear bombs was confirmed shortly afterwards. Nuclear sharing agreements have been controversial due their de facto creation of recent nuclear weapons states, with Western analysts having broadly highlighted that they violate Articles I and II of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
America presently has lively sharing agreements are presently in place with NATO members Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and Turkey, with the air forces of those states all coaching to launch air strikes utilizing B61-12 bombs. All nuclear sharing companions are purchasers for the F-35 fighter, apart from Turkey which is presently negotiating to return to this system. The Polish Air Pressure’s procurement of the F-35 has because the late 2010s fuelled vital hypothesis that this may increasingly have been supposed to arrange its forces to enter a nuclear sharing settlement. The fighters are thought of optimum plane for launching tactical nuclear assaults attributable to their superior stealth capabilities, with the Royal Netherlands Air Pressure having in June 2024 turn out to be the primary nuclear sharing accomplice to have them take over their nuclear strike roles, simply three months after the U.S. Air Pressure did so in March that yr.
In July 2025 one among Poland’s most influential navy thinkers and president of Academy24, Common (ret.) Jaroslaw Gromadzinski, advocated a significant shift within the nation’s defence posture aimed particularly at getting ready for conflict with Russia. Gromadzinski argued that Poland wanted to embrace an “lively defence,” and be able to function “throughout the total operational depth of the opponent” by getting ready to launch assaults throughout Russian territory. His insights echoed these made by former Polish chief of the Common Workers Rajmund Andrzejczak in October 2024, who noticed: “In the event that they assault even an inch of Lithuanian territory, the response will come instantly. Not on the primary day, however within the first minute. We are going to hit all strategic targets inside a radius of 300km. We are going to assault St. Petersburg straight.” He additional famous that Warsaw wanted to “take the initiative” in deterring Moscow. “Russia should realise that an assault on Poland or the Baltic nations would additionally imply its finish… That’s the solely strategy to deter the Kremlin from such aggression,” Andrzejczak elaborated. The acquiring of nuclear weapons would slot in with the broader consensus in Warsaw relating to the necessity to maximise the power to trigger devastation throughout Russia.
Poland has taken a very laborious line towards Moscow, with senior politicians calling for Russia’s balkanisation into separate states, whereas Prime Minister Mateus Morawiecki has equated strikes in direction of dialogue with Moscow with “negotiating with Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot,” claiming “you don’t negotiate with criminals.” The nation has been the main supply of international navy contractors preventing Russia in Ukraine underneath items such because the Polish Volunteer Corps, with the Polish parliament earlier in February having moved to supply authorized cowl to such operations, indicating a potential escalation of their scale. Polish personnel on the bottom working from Ukraine have taken half in spearheading a number of assaults into Russian territory, together with Belogrod and Kursk, whereas the nation has remained a number one supplier of armaments and funding to the conflict effort.
