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Tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) are a particularly dangerous category of nuclear weapons. They are portable, often integrated into conventional force structures and, in some cases, less well guarded than their strategic counterparts. Despite the 1991 US-Russia Presidential Nuclear Initiatives, there has never been any formal agreement on the removal and elimination of TNWs. Despite periodic updates on progress, data were never agreed, only proportions of numbers to be eliminated or stored were declared. Still today a great deal of uncertainty exists over the implementation of the 1991 unilateral declarations.