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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thetimes.com ...
I guess you play the popular game from Russia not with a six round cylinder, but rather a single chambered bullet?
Sounds like Iran and other terror nations. If there’s no money, there’s no research and the US saves hundreds of thousands of people. Win-win.
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Putin’s puppet threatens to unleash nuclear Armageddon on UK if Russia loses in Ukraine
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He’s asking Putin to bomb Ukraine’s nuke factories now before Trump gets it to justify WWIII...
Not happening.
I only have seconds left to live, and we each passing second I come closer & closer to my death.
He will have built it with our money, too. The Biden Legacy…
Why should America deal with this? The Brits and Canada can spend more.
Russia is not losing.
And why did they return those nukes. Can you answer that simple question? I know the answer BTW, do you?
Under this administration , we too rank right there alongside of Russia & China for honesty. But they have us hands-down when it comes to competency of our rapidly evolving rainbow military.
No access to launch codes, and no access to required maintenance skills. Even the US said shipping them to the US would be pointless, too, because the US didn’t have that either.
They never had those nukes. Russia still had them, even though on Ukraine soil.
The whole “if we had not given them back” stuff is just wrong. They never had them.
That’s true, but Russia still maintained control of them. They were useless to them in reality, for without the launch sequence they had no real nuclear weapons at their disposal.
Sorry I wasn’t at all clear on that.
Best regards!
not the card to play...
You’re preaching to the choir. See my #20:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4278117/posts?page=20#20
Zeepers and their globohomo god, Zelensky, are War Pigs...War keeps the $$$ pouring into his laundromat.
That's why they LOVE death and destruction AND bombs.
Actually if they still had them & Russia targeted them, Russia would still have to trigger the fission process. Another bomb would not even trigger it, from my understanding. I suppose there might be some kid of way, but I am not familiar with it. In other words, I have never read anything that say how that might be accomplished.
You are correct, Ukraine giving them back took nothing away from Ukraine's defense whatsoever.
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