Couldn’t they be only activated from Moscow anyway?
Should just meltdown all their nuclear reactors and melt the entire planet with radiation, better than risk being Russian.
In 1994 Ukraine, Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom signed the Budapest Memorandum. Ukraine gave up the 3rd largest nuclear stockpile in the world to appease global leaders. In return, Ukraine received ***security guarantees***.
One of the signatories (Russia) invaded in 2014, manufactured a war in Donbas in 2015 and has put over 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders twice in the last six months.
The United States and the United Kingdom, arguably Ukraine’s closest allies still vocally refuse to provide Ukraine a collective defensive and meet their responsibilities under the memorandum.
Oh for christ sake, not this nonsense again. It never made any sense to keep those nukes, unless the plan was to put the rocket on a truck and hope no one stops you while you drive to the target and detonate it manually.
It was a stupid move but most likely neither Russians nor West would have accepted a new nuclear state and Ukraine was not willing to become an outsider like North Korea.
There were other mistakes made by Ukrainian government, too. Ukraine was home to three best military districts in entire USSR, Kiev, Odessa and Lwow districts. Countless jets, helicopters, tanks, ammo depots. And pretty much all Ukraine did for 20 years was selling off inherited stuff to Africans and Asians. So when Russia attacked in 2014 they barely had much of anything left and had to modify civilian helicopters for military needs
Ukraine has nuclear plants, so they have lots of enriched Uranium and Plutonium. I am pretty sure that they have the know-how of a Soviet Era nuclear warhead.
Ukraine could make a nuclear weapon but they chose not to. That makes Ukraine the good guy.
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Couldn’t they be only activated from Moscow anyway?
Should just meltdown all their nuclear reactors and melt the entire planet with radiation, better than risk being Russian.
In 1994 Ukraine, Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom signed the Budapest Memorandum. Ukraine gave up the 3rd largest nuclear stockpile in the world to appease global leaders. In return, Ukraine received ***security guarantees***.
One of the signatories (Russia) invaded in 2014, manufactured a war in Donbas in 2015 and has put over 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders twice in the last six months.
The United States and the United Kingdom, arguably Ukraine’s closest allies still vocally refuse to provide Ukraine a collective defensive and meet their responsibilities under the memorandum.
Oh for christ sake, not this nonsense again. It never made any sense to keep those nukes, unless the plan was to put the rocket on a truck and hope no one stops you while you drive to the target and detonate it manually.
It was a stupid move but most likely neither Russians nor West would have accepted a new nuclear state and Ukraine was not willing to become an outsider like North Korea.
There were other mistakes made by Ukrainian government, too. Ukraine was home to three best military districts in entire USSR, Kiev, Odessa and Lwow districts. Countless jets, helicopters, tanks, ammo depots. And pretty much all Ukraine did for 20 years was selling off inherited stuff to Africans and Asians. So when Russia attacked in 2014 they barely had much of anything left and had to modify civilian helicopters for military needs
Ukraine has nuclear plants, so they have lots of enriched Uranium and Plutonium. I am pretty sure that they have the know-how of a Soviet Era nuclear warhead.
Ukraine could make a nuclear weapon but they chose not to. That makes Ukraine the good guy.