Ukraine can produce nuclear weapons but their political costs would be

Details: Written by: Oleg Sukhov; 06.Nov; Hits: 5

With the looming risk that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump may pull the plug on Washington's support for Ukraine, Kyiv has flirted with the option of nuclear deterrence.The prospect of such a scenario was raised weeks earlier when President Volodymyr Zelensky in October said he had told Trump during a September meeting in New York City that Ukraine would either join NATO or develop nuclear weapons.Zelensky claimed that Trump had heard him and said that "it was a fair argument.

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The Kyiv Independent is Ukraine’s fastest-growing English-language media outlet, created in November 2021, just three months before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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"Zelensky later walked back that statement, saying that Ukraine was not pursuing nuclear weapons.However, Zelensky's statement prompted speculation on whether a Ukrainian nuclear weapons program is realistic from technological and political standpoints.Experts say that Ukraine is capable of producing at least a primitive nuclear weapon within years, although it would require considerable investment.President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (R) meet in New York during the visit to the United States in New York City, U.S. on Sept. 27, 2024. (Uliana Boichuk/Novyny LIVE/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)"I guess everyone's gonna get nukes. That should work out well," John Sipher, a retired member of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's Senior Intelligence Service, quipped in a Nov. 6 post on X, commenting on Trump's victory in the Nov.

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