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Thursday, 7/2, 10:45 AM
Lithuania Moves to Lift Its Constitutional Ban on Nuclear Weapons
- Lithuania's new government is pushing to strike a Cold War-era clause from the constitution that bars weapons of mass destruction and foreign bases from its soil — a step meant to keep the door open to NATO's nuclear defenses as fears of Russia grow.
- It is a proposal, not yet a done deal: changing the constitution takes a two-thirds parliamentary supermajority.