Ukraine could develop an elementary nuclear bomb in a few months to stop the aggressor country russia if the U.S. cuts military aid.
The Times reported this on Wednesday, November 13, citing information from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
The publication writes that Ukraine can create a bomb similar to the one that the U.S. dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.
"Ukraine can develop an elementary nuclear bomb within a few months if Donald Trump stops U.S. military assistance," says a report prepared for the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The reference is to the explosion of the Fat Man nuclear bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Creating a simple nuclear bomb, as the United States did with the Manhattan Project, would not be a difficult task and 80 years later," the article says.
The Ukrainian report claims that Kyiv could rapidly develop such weapons today to deter russia, The Times notes. Not having time to build and launch the large capacities necessary for uranium enrichment, in wartime Ukraine would have to rely on the use of plutonium extracted from spent fuel rods removed from Ukrainian nuclear reactors, the publication writes.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on September 25, russian dictator vladimir putin proposed to change russia's nuclear doctrine, allowing the use of nuclear weapons in the event of a mass drone attack on the russian federation.
On October 17, Dmytro Lytvyn, adviser to the president of Ukraine on communications issues, stated that the Bild publication's information about Ukraine's alleged intentions to restore nuclear weapons is not true.
On November 13, NATO announced that it would have already sent its troops to Ukraine if russia did not have nuclear weapons.
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