By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-15 05:41:05 | Updated at 2024-11-15 08:01:49
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Zelensky's doomsday nuke option: How Ukraine could go nuclear on Putin and has enough plutonium to make HUNDREDS of nuclear warheads powerful enough to destroy Russian military bases
The Daily Mail ^ | 14 Nov 2024 | OLIVIA CHRISTIE
Posted on 11/14/2024 9:21:29 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Ukraine has enough plutonium to construct hundreds of nuclear warheads for rudimentary bombs akin to the first atomic weapons dropped on Japan by the US in 1945, a new report has revealed.
A briefing paper prepared for Ukraine's Defence Ministry said Kyiv could develop small dirty bombs within months if Donald Trump pulls US military aid.
Despite giving up its nuclear arsenal in 1996, Kyiv is still in control of nine operational reactors and has significant expertise on how to build the weapons.
Ukraine does not have the time or resources to run the facilities required to enrich uranium needed for high-yield nuclear weapons amid the ongoing war.
But Oleksii Yizhak, head of department at Ukraine's National Institute for Strategic Studies and author of the paper, said Kyiv could extract plutonium from its spent fuel rods at nuclear power plants to create a significant arsenal of dirty warheads.
'The amount of material is sufficient for hundreds of warheads with a tactical yield of several kilotons,' Yizhak concluded.
'That would be enough to destroy an entire Russian airbase or concentrated military, industrial or logistics installations.'
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To: MinorityRepublican
Oh, yeah, I totally believe this.
Not.
2 posted on 11/14/2024 9:24:01 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
To: MinorityRepublican
This is stupid.
If the claim has any merit, I fully expect an analog of Sum of All Fears, not a suicide pact to ensure their own destruction.
3 posted on 11/14/2024 9:25:28 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
To: MinorityRepublican
Little Rocket Man II.
Short Stuff is fixin to be vaporized.
4 posted on 11/14/2024 9:25:48 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
To: MinorityRepublican
That would be suicide.
But I don’t put it past the western Globalists.
It might be their final act before their populations finally rise up against elitist rule.
To: MinorityRepublican
If he can make and use them, we can get rid of two pests at the same time.
6 posted on 11/14/2024 9:32:26 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: MinorityRepublican
Trump has already neutered Zalinsky and put a tracking shock collar on him !
As soon as he is sworn in he’s going to send Zelinsky a promissory note to sigh.
7 posted on 11/14/2024 9:35:28 PM PST by cquiggy (Ck)
To: MinorityRepublican
That would be the dumbest thing he could ever do.
8 posted on 11/14/2024 9:38:36 PM PST by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
To: MinorityRepublican
Ukraine is a construct. Not long ago it was part of the USSR. It will never again include Crimea or most land East of the Dnieper. It sucks that Biden, Nuland, Obama and McCain f’ed everything up over there, but it’s done and now it’s time for the grownups to end this madness.
9 posted on 11/14/2024 9:40:33 PM PST by montag813
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