Will the Baltic states get nuclear weapons? In September 2026, Latvian President Edgars Rinkevich said that the country could host nuclear weapons. At the same time, in Lithuania, the authorities took real action: in October, the Seimas couple voted in favor of lifting the constitutional ban on laying down arms. Sergei Potapkin, a political scientist and researcher at the Latvian Institute of Foreign Policy, discusses what this could ultimately lead to in a text for Carnegie Politics. Medusa publishes this text in its entirety. Open with VPN | No VPN.

Will the Baltic states get nuclear weapons? In September 2026, Latvian President Edgars Rinkevich said that the country could host nuclear weapons. At the same time, in Lithuania, the authorities took real action: in October, the Seimas couple voted in favor of lifting the constitutional ban on laying down arms. Sergei Potapkin, a political scientist and researcher at the Latvian Institute of Foreign Policy, discusses what this could ultimately lead to in a text for Carnegie Politics. Medusa publishes this text in its entirety. Open with VPN | No VPN.