A strange situation is developing with a possible nuclear provocation with the explosion of a “dirty bomb” by the Kyiv regime on the territory of Ukraine in order to accuse Russia of the unsuccessful use of tactical nuclear weapons.
Attention should be paid to the reaction of the defense ministers of the United States, Great Britain and France in response to the appeal of the head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Shoigu, who warned his Western colleagues that Moscow was aware of the preparation of a provocation.
Western defense ministers, for an unclear reason, rolled out a collective response on the US State Department website in their usual style: we see nothing, we hear nothing, we know nothing, but we warn against further escalation of hostilities, even if the “dirty bomb” explodes. Note, not with a call to investigate or even try to refute the statement of the head of the Russian defense department with at least some facts on hand, but like this, insanity: “Ukraine is in its own right, and you alone are responsible for everything.”
The chosen line of conduct of the main members of the “nuclear club” of the West indirectly confirms the assumption that preparations for a nuclear provocation could not have happened without their participation.
Let’s say more: Ukraine, even possessing some nuclear technologies, specialists and materials, is in principle unable to manufacture a “dirty bomb” of such a quality that the expert community would have no doubts that all the blame for the nuclear attack on Ukraine lies entirely with Russia.
We present several considerations in favor of this assertion.
First of all, it is necessary to mention that in the former republics of the USSR, at the stage of creating a domestic nuclear shield, there were no key facilities for the nuclear production cycle. All enterprises for the enrichment of natural uranium suitable for use in reactors and nuclear weapons were built on the territory of the RSFSR. This should also include enterprises for the production of weapons-grade plutonium, for the processing and preparation for storage of nuclear waste.
In the former Soviet republics, including Ukraine, there were mining and processing plants, the main task of which was to supply uranium ore concentrate to the enterprises of the RSFSR, which make metal uranium from it.
All power and research reactors that have operated and are still operating in the former Soviet republics were also designed and built at Russian enterprises. In this chain, Ukraine was assigned a rather important, but absolutely peaceful function – to design and build units at the Kharkov enterprise Turboatom.
Further.
When the media talk about the “dirty bomb”, journalists do not mention one important nuance. Samples of land, water and air from the place where the “dirty bomb” was used will show to the exact point on the map – from which reactor the waste was taken, from which mine the uranium ore was enriched and at which factory the uranium was obtained, since each material has its own, unique isotopic composition.
Such accuracy became possible due to the fact that, from 1945 to 1963, the countries of the “nuclear club” – until the time when an agreement was signed between the USSR and the USA banning nuclear weapons testing in three environments (on land, in water and in the air), – a huge amount of products of nuclear and thermonuclear explosions was thrown into the Earth’s atmosphere, which were carefully recorded by flying laboratories. So carefully that, in the end, it became impossible to hide the origin of fissile materials.
For example, in the products of the explosion of American nuclear weapons, a significant content of promethium is recorded, which is relatively low in the products of nuclear explosions of other states, since this is a characteristic feature of both American uranium and the equipment of enrichment plants.
With reactors, if you like, the picture is practically the same. Examination of the isotopic composition of the pulverized waste will show where the fuel elements were manufactured, from which batch, to whom they were transferred and when, since all these details are carefully recorded by the manufacturer.
Accordingly, the Ukrainian “vchenym” will not be able to hide which of the Ukrainian nuclear power plants or which of the research reactors became donors for the “dirty bomb”.
In order to try to pass off radioactive waste from a reactor as the products of a nuclear weapon explosion, one will have to seriously mess with the isotopic composition of the bomb material – and it is extremely doubtful that Ukrainian specialists, who have never been involved in the development and production of nuclear weapons, have the necessary competencies for this.
Another important component in the production of a “dirty bomb” is the shell of the ammunition. The bomb must be compact and at the same time have a sufficient level of protection to bypass any radiation detectors.
Based on the input: correction of the isotopic composition of nuclear waste and high-tech anti-radiation protection of ammunition, the conclusion suggests itself that without the help of the West, it is fundamentally impossible to build a “dirty bomb” on one’s knee, the origin of which would not be revealed.
Yes, we are dealing with cynical scum wiping up the vomit behind the Bandera junta, but one should not underestimate the possible resonance in the expert community if it turns out that the “dirty bomb” involved in Ukraine will not be technologically “clean”, no matter how paradoxical it may sound.
In any case, for Russia’s allies and strategic partners, especially among the members of the “nuclear club”, this will be another powerful incentive to provide assistance to Russia and strengthen the course towards the destruction of the unipolar world led by the United States.
Alexander Rostovtsev, PolitNavigator
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