Zelensky’s doomsday nuke option: How Ukraine could go nuclear on Putin and has enough plutonium to make HUNDREDS of nuclear warheads powerful enough to destroy Russian military bases

Ukraine has enough plutonium to build hundreds of nuclear warheads for rudimentary bombs similar to the first atomic weapons the US dropped on Japan in 1945, a new report shows.

A briefing document prepared for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense states that Kiev could develop small dirty bombs within months if Donald Trump were to withdraw US military aid.

Despite giving up its nuclear arsenal in 1996, Kiev still controls nine operational reactors and has significant expertise in building weapons.

Ukraine does not have the time or resources to operate the facilities needed to enrich uranium needed for high-yield nuclear weapons amid the ongoing war.

But Oleksii Yizhak, department head of Ukraine’s National Institute for Strategic Studies and author of the paper, said Kiev could extract plutonium from the spent fuel rods of nuclear power plants to create a significant arsenal of dirty warheads.

“The amount of material is sufficient for hundreds of nuclear warheads with a tactical yield of several kilotons,” Yizhak concluded.

“That would be enough to destroy an entire Russian air base or concentrated military, industrial or logistics installations.”

The weapon would use the same technology as the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, the report said, with each bomb having about one-tenth the power of the Fat Man.

Zelensky made a bombshell announcement at an EU summit in Brussels, claiming he wanted NATO to let his country join the military alliance or Ukraine would become a nuclear power.

President Vladimir Putin delivers a video address on the occasion of the Day of the Internal Affairs Officer in Moscow on November 10, 2024

Replicas of the first atomic bombs, Little Boy, left, was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare over Hiroshima, Japan, on the morning of August 6, 1945. Fat Man, right, was used on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9. , 1945

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet Donald Trump in New York in September

The disturbing revelation comes after Trump reportedly backed President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s shock ultimatum to NATO last month, suggesting Ukraine should become a nuclear power if the country does not gain NATO membership.

Zelensky later clarified that he meant there was no alternative security guarantee and Kiev has since denied that they are considering building a nuclear bomb.

According to The timesreads the briefing document prepared for the Department of Defense: “Creating a simple atomic bomb, as the United States did under the Manhattan Project, would not be a difficult task 80 years later.”

“The weight of reactor plutonium available to Ukraine can be estimated at seven tons… A significant nuclear arsenal would require much less material,” the report continued.

President-elect Trump has pledged to end the war between Russia and Ukraine within a day of becoming president and has boasted of his “very good relationship” with President Putin.

He has also said the invasion would never have happened if he had been in the White House and has criticized Biden’s support for Ukraine, despite President Zelensky’s staunch opposition to ceding territory to Russia.

Zelensky reportedly told NATO last month that his country must join the group or face nuclear weapons in a shock ultimatum reportedly backed by Trump.

The 46-year-old leader announced his impressive proposal at the EU summit in Brussels, stating that either NATO would quickly include Ukraine in its alliance or the country would once again become a nuclear power, the German newspaper Bild reported.

President Donald Trump meets with Russia’s Vladimir Putin during the G-20 summit in Hamburg in July 2017

The bomb would be large enough to destroy an entire Russian air base or concentrated military or industrial targets, the paper’s authors concluded (stock photo)

Zelensky had reportedly planned to present what has been dubbed his “victory plan” to the European Union’s heads of state and government, but instead made the dramatic announcement to stunned reporters.

In a speech to former US President Donald Trump, 78, several weeks ago, the Ukrainian leader stated: ‘Either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons, and then they will be our defense.

‘Or we’ll have to enter into some kind of alliance. Apart from NATO, we currently have no effective alliances.’

He said Trump had agreed to his proposal before making the declaration at the summit, insisting that membership in NATO would give his country the ultimate security guarantee to protect it from Russia.

Last week it emerged that Trump could propose an 800-mile demilitarized zone between Russia and Ukraine as part of a plan to end the war early.

The plans, outlined by three Trump staffers, would see the zone controlled by British and European forces.

It would mean that Russia would maintain its territorial gains in Ukraine while the current border would remain frozen. Kiev should also ensure that it will not join NATO for the next twenty years.

Ukrainian soldiers from the 26th Artillery Brigade fire an AHS Krab self-propelled howitzer at Russian positions near the front line in the Khasiv Yar area

Under the plans, the US would arm Ukraine in exchange for preventing Russia from resuming the war. However, the responsibility for staffing and financing the buffer zone would lie solely with Ukraine’s European allies.

“We can provide training and other support, but the barrel of the gun will be European,” a member of Trump’s team told the Wall Street Journal.

“We are not sending American men and women to maintain peace in Ukraine. And we don’t pay for it. Let the Poles, Germans, British and French do it.’

Many analysts have warned that Trump will indeed cut U.S. military aid to Ukraine and force Kiev’s European partners to take on a huge burden to maintain an adequate weapons stockpile — a move that would certainly increase pressure on Zelensky to consider a negotiated solution.

“Trump has a legitimate point that European allies have underperformed on defense and relied on Uncle Sam to protect them for too long, and this is a huge wake-up call for the West,” said Dr. Russell Foster , senior lecturer in British. and International Politics at King’s College London, told MailOnline.

“But Europe, Canada and Australasia have allowed their defense spending to stagnate for so long that they don’t have nearly the industrial base and military infrastructure to help defend Ukraine and themselves from further aggression without American help.

‘We are likely to see major calls for defense spending and investment across NATO, but this will take years to build and will be hugely expensive at a time of economic stagnation. The future of Western defense now looks very bleak.”