Posted on 11/13/2024 8:52:37 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Ukraine could develop a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if Donald Trump withdraws US military assistance, according to a briefing paper prepared for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence.
The country would quickly be able to build a basic device from plutonium with a similar technology to the “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, the report states. “Creating a simple atomic bomb, as the United States did within the framework of the Manhattan Project, would not be a difficult task 80 years later,” the document reads.
With no time to build and run the large facilities required to enrich uranium, wartime Ukraine would have to rely instead on using plutonium extracted from spent fuel rods taken from Ukraine’s nuclear reactors.
Ukraine still controls nine operational reactors and has significant nuclear expertise despite having given up the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal in 1996. The report says: “The weight of reactor plutonium available to Ukraine can be estimated at seven tons … A significant nuclear weapons arsenal would require much less material … the amount of material is sufficient for hundreds of warheads with a tactical yield of several kilotons.”
Such a bomb would have about one tenth the power of Fat Man, the document’s authors conclude.
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He's not fighting Russia now. He's running an extortion racket on the west.
End this little man who should be selling used cars.
In the history of bad ideas...this is the worst.
If they detonate an atomic bomb, it will be Ukraine that will lose the war. In a heartbeat.
A radiological bomb? Yes. A fission or fusion bomb? No.
I think he’s suicidal and wants to bring the rest of the Ukes down with him.
Yep. Z-man is grasping at straws: Maybe threatening nuclear war will shake loose some more $$ and weapons from Uncle Sugar!"
He's like a teenage boy who's girlfriend has dumped him, and is so desperate, he's turned to threats.
FO Z
It’s over...
What a sad indictment of the Ukraine. 80 years after Americans invented the nuclear bomb with slide rules with no guarantee that the science was sound in the middle of WS2 and the Ukes can only build a dirty bomb with 1/10th the power of the Fat Man bomb? What a shortbus country.
They and you are ridiculous.
Those with your mentality have us closer to WW III and nuclear war than we ever were during the Cold War.
I am just waiting for the cruise missile to go off under Zelensky’s ass.
As far as I am concerned this would be the best and quickest resolution.
Ukraine as a country is already destroyed because the men are gone, the only thing left is for it to be divided up between the Russia and Blackrock.
If so, the little GloboHomoPedoNazi Faggot will detonate it in downtown Kiev.
I don’t think the US or any other of the major military powers on the planet will just stand
by, wring their hands and plead: “Oh PLEASE don’t do THAT again…”. No - they will bomb the bejeezus out of Ukraine so that they CAN’T do it again. Ever.
Needless to say, MANY people will die.
And each of the several Russian missiles fired in response to this single futile effort would be much more powerful than the Fat Man with thousands of missiles still held in reserve.
Unless the Russian response is extraordinarily disproportionate, the Western response is likely some stern talk to the Russians and a statement to the Ukraine saying that was a stupid move on your part and you'd be wise to end this war now.
LOLOL!!
What Kuks doink?
It looks like the security assurances have been violated, so why shouldn't Ukraine get nukes back?
Are we SURE about that? Seriously. Russia has the same reputation as China when it comes to honesty, and when it comes to proper maintenance of older equipment. Russia doesn't have any new nukes, and their military budget is one eleventh the size of ours. AND they've been losing men and materiel for 2 years now, while failing to take Kiev. They need to spend money on maintaining and replacing those losses, they need to spend money and resources on pretending to have a military that compares to ours, AND they're going to maintain the largest number of warheads on earth??? (5500 to our 5000). On only 9% of our budget???
Color me highly skeptical that they have more than a handful of VIABLE nuclear missiles. They seem a lot more like a paper tiger thees days, while getting their tails kicked by an unarmed Ukraine.
A bomb 1/10 the power of the WWII bombs is hardly outside the range of bigger conventional weapons. It would not be a game changer against the entrenchments and armor of the enemy on the battlefront (being comparable to the mine the Germans blew up a ridge with in WWI that hardly moved the front line), and would only do enough damage against a Russian city to piss them off and horrify the rest of the planet. This is what desperation sounds like.
The article says “develop” a bomb, not USE one. Ukraine had the 3rd largest stockpile in the world just 30 years ago. And we are obligated by treaty to use nukes against anyone that uses nukes against Ukraine.
The US did not want nukes in Ukrainian hands for very good reasons.
We also violated Budapest by meddling in Ukraine’s internal affairs and via economic coercion.
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