The nuclear bomb soon to be used by Ukraine? Trump's possible suspension of military aid raises fears of the worst

War in Ukraine: Putin places nuclear deterrence at the heart of his strategy

The consequences of a US withdrawal

All eyes are on the other side of the Atlantic. Will Donald Trump, newly elected at the head of the world power of the United States, withdraw his country's military aid granted to Ukraine? If so, the consequences could be irreversible. According to the report, the weapon that Ukraine could create within a few months would feature technology comparable to the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, which killed 70,000 people. This will require a significant dose of plutonium, which is not a problem for kyiv, which has some through its nine nuclear reactors still operational. “They contain enough material for hundreds of nuclear warheads with a force of several kilotons“, indicates the report. This nuclear weapon would have a force equivalent to one tenth of the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

Concretely, if Ukraine came to this, it would withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1994, which regulates the possession of nuclear weapons. Which might not be complicated in one sense, as the report points out that the deal has already been broken by Moscow by setting up the Russian invasion.