The Ukraine is barely fighting anymore hence the non existent counter offensive. In reality Russia has already won and now nato are just sending weapons straight to Russia while decreasing their own standard of living. It’s based as shit.
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Really, Ukraine have technology for nukes from USSR, few R&D institutes was located in Ukrainian Soviet Republic, but have no skilled personnel to make them now, thanks to Western education system installed and thorough getting rid of any Soviet legacy.
So nukes bullshit could be excluded.
As for detection, thing is that low radiocative material in volume have higher influence on background than high radioactive in small volume. It is like thousands small lightbulbs over a large area vs one bright one but very small. Single bright lightbulb is easy to shadow out, while with thousands of small lightbulbs you will not see even your own shadow relatively far from that heap.
Do they have the enrichment facilities? The weapon factories? This was all Soviet tech.
The conspiracies was. It was big when the USSR split was a few blackmarket nukes and materials made it onto the open market particularly from the Ukraine and other former republics. Not all the stockpile and inventory was accounted for. Of course there's a lot of room to tell tales. There was another conspiracy not all the nukes made it out after it completely devolutioned today, there were hidden facilities still in operation. These are quite possibly fantasy movies and novels. It has been a narrative in many movies and novels.
I agree they haven't got the tech. They wouldn't need all the funding and arms and munitions if they had any other notions of manufacture and production. Besides their main industrial sector in the East is currently Russian territory outside of a few other places regionally.
Can they make nukes, if they had the materials, and facilities. Currently they don't.
I understand your point. But that signature would have spiked across Europe and from the depot in the UK to the airfield. A radio active plane, train is inbound. Beeeeeeeep. Meanwhile all the handlers would be bleeding out their arse with their hair falling out. Forget sitting in a tank with it.
Had once. Mostly research ones, not industrial, but enough to create something. Buildings was sold out long ago, but equipment could be still there in some state. It's not easy to sell such equipment. There was some attempts with Westinghouse to somehow ressurect something, but AFAIK, nothing came out from that, even for NPPs.
I didn't check that and I don't know the path to look for. Also, if such cargo didn't stay long enough in one place during transportation to leave significant trace. Even if there was some spikes, then it will be nearly indistinguishable from daily fluctuations and without knowing when and where to look for, it will be very hard to find something.
Meanwhile, there are quite a lot of strange spots with relatively high background levels over Europe according to that REMon maps. And not in France who have intensive nuclear exploitation. Didn't dig a lot, but some places look strange.
No. Gamma levels of such magnitude is not harmful for humans. You need literally put DU inside body to get noticeable damage from alpha and beta to the cells as it happened in areas where DU shells was shot and so produce dust and residents occasionally consume it with food and water.
Thanks for the explanation.
But theoretically exposed to it, as a tank, loading crew constantly loading and handling the shells would cause long term health problems if it is providing significant gamma readings from an abundant stockpile.
You literally live on a such stockpile of slightly radioactive material named Earth.