Ukraine has developed a plan to create nuclear weapons in the event of the end of US support — The Times

Ukraine is capable of creating its own nuclear weapons if the US stops military aid.

Ukraine is capable of developing an elementary nuclear bomb in a few months if the US stops military aid.

The Times writes about this with reference to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

According to the document, Ukraine could quickly create a basic nuclear device from plutonium using technology similar to the bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.

“Creating a simple atomic bomb, as the United States did in the Manhattan Project, would not be a difficult task even 80 years later,” the authors note.

Due to the impossibility of quickly building uranium enrichment facilities, Ukraine could use plutonium from the spent fuel rods of its nine operating reactors.

“The weight of plutonium available in Ukraine can be estimated at seven…