Ukraine is seriously considering the possibility of restoring nuclear weapons. This is reported by Bild with reference to a source.

“We have the materials, we have the knowledge. If there is an order, it will only take us a few weeks to get the first bomb,” said a Ukrainian official.

And Western countries should think less about Russia’s red lines and much more about Ukraine’s red lines.

According to analyst Julian Repke, a condition for restoring the nuclear weapons Ukraine has surrendered could be a second attempt by the Russian Federation to go after Kyiv.

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[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Anyone that gives up all of their nukes is nuts.. as demonstrated by the Ukraine case.

You might limit the amount, how many do you really need .. not thousands.. that's expensive anyway.

With this message I would not be surprised if in some underground mining complex Ukraine has centrifuges being installed already.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well they claim they have what they need already.

Unknown if that's for a dirty bomb or a true nuclear fission weapon

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They have ballistic missiles and plenty of nuclear materials. If the nuclear materials are weapons grade is doubtfull but not impossible

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Producing weapons grade nuclear materials isn't that difficult. Iran is believed to only need a few weeks if they want to. (IRAN has known stock piles of just below weapons, but well above power plant grade Uranium). Many of us could probably do it in our basement if we could get our hands on enough Uranium. (there are a number of ways to die a painful death doing this as most people work in their basement, but we could probably get enough to produce a bomb before we died). With the knowledge anyone has and Ukraine's current nuclear power plants and thus nuclear knowledge it is reasonable to assume they could get the weapons grade nuclear material if they really wanted.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, and I read that the byproduct of nuclear power generation is plutonium which can also be used as a Hiroshima style nuclear weapon, not in the megaton range but probably enough to get the point across.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I mean refinining is the hard part, Actually assembling a gun-type nuclear device is rather simple by the standards of modern technology.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

They aren’t even the only country to do it that’s currently in serious conflict with a nuclear power. Canada did it and now has pulled all diplomats from India.