{"id":180091,"date":"2024-11-30T20:35:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T20:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=180091"},"modified":"2024-11-30T20:35:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T20:35:31","slug":"report-ukraine-could-construct-plutonium-made-nuclear-bombs-within-months-if-trump-halts-military-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/report-ukraine-could-construct-plutonium-made-nuclear-bombs-within-months-if-trump-halts-military-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Ukraine could construct plutonium-made \u201cnuclear bombs\u201d within months if Trump halts military aid"},"content":{"rendered":"

A briefing paper prepared for Ukraine’s Defense Ministry recently revealed that Kyiv has plutonium resources that would allow them to build hundreds of rudimentary explosives within months<\/a>. These \u201cdirty bombs\u201d are similar to the first atomic weapons dropped by the United States in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.<\/p>\n

The report indicated that this course of action could be triggered if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump pulls out the military aid for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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According to the paper, Kyiv is still in control of nine operational reactors and has \u201csignificant expertise on how to build weapons<\/em>\u201d despite giving up its nuclear arsenal in 1996. Oleksii Yizhak, head of the department at Ukraine’s National Institute for Strategic Studies and author of the paper, claimed that they could extract plutonium from its spent fuel rods at nuclear power plants to create a significant arsenal of dirty warheads.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe amount of material is sufficient for hundreds of warheads with a tactical yield of several kilotons<\/em>,\u201d Yizhak said, adding that these would also suffice to destroy an entire Russian airbase or concentrated military, industrial or logistics installations.<\/p>\n

Last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Trump that Kyiv will pursue nuclear weapons for defense if it doesn’t gain entry into NATO<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe outcome is either Ukraine will be a nuclear power \u2013 and that will be our protection \u2013 or we should have some kind of alliance. Other than NATO, today we don’t know of any effective alliances<\/em>,\u201d Zelensky said in Ukrainian while speaking to the European Council in Brussels. \u201cI believe that he heard me<\/em>,\u201d the Ukrainian leader said of Trump.<\/p>\n

Zelensky later clarified he had meant there was no alternative security guarantee and Kyiv has since denied they are considering building a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Trump has famously pledged to end the Russia-Ukraine war within 24h of becoming president. He met with Zelensky before the U.S. presidential elections and vouched for his \u201cvery good relationship<\/em>\u201d with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

He has also said the invasion would never have occurred if he had been in the White House and has criticized outgoing President Joe Biden’s level of support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Recently it emerged that Trump could propose an 800-mile demilitarized zone between Russia and Ukraine as part of a plan to end the war early. The plans, which were outlined by three Trump staffers, would involve the zone being policed by British and European troops.<\/p>\n

Under the plans, the U.S. would also arm Ukraine to deter Russia from restarting the war. However, responsibility for manning and financing the buffer zone would fall solely on Ukraine’s European allies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not sending American men and women to uphold peace in Ukraine. And we are not paying for it. Get the Poles, Germans, British and French to do it<\/em>,\u201d Trump reportedly said.<\/p>\n

Kyiv denies reports that it would be building nukes if Trump cuts off aid<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry on Nov. 13 denied media reports claiming that Kyiv would be developing weapons of mass destruction<\/a> should the U.S. stop sending military aid to the nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cUkraine is committed to the NPT (the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons); we do not possess, develop, or intend to acquire nuclear weapons<\/em>,\u201d Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said via X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n

He said that Ukraine works closely with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and that it is fully transparent in its monitoring, which rules out the use of nuclear materials for military purposes.<\/p>\n

Amid these uncertainties, the United States recently announced a $425 million military aid package to Ukraine. The package would include armored vehicles and anti-tank weapons.<\/p>\n

A separate analysis wickedly suggested that Trump just hand Ukraine nuclear weapons to thwart Putin’s Russia once and for all.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Drummond, a security and defense expert, told the Daily Express<\/em>: \u201cIn the next four years Russia will rearm, but also Ukraine will recover and rearm and prepare. That preparation could be the U.S. giving Ukraine nuclear weapons<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA deal could be done very quietly, and suddenly Ukraine becomes very powerful. Zelensky can say ‘We have nuclear weapons and if you attack us we will bomb Moscow’<\/em>,\u201d he said. \u201cCan you imagine what that would do to Putin? This is one reason why Putin may be weary of a peace deal that is not exactly on his terms<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

He argued that yes, this is possible, and still not allow Ukraine to join NATO.<\/p>\n

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yogaesoteric
\nNovember 30 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

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