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Originally Posted by Skybird
They must not do it from scratch, but can fall back on past designs that they just modify. A simple free falling nuclear bomb to be dropped form an airplane - or being transported in a suitcase... - can be done quite fast if you have weapon-ready plutonium. Difficult are ballistic missiles as carriers. I seem to recall Ukraine was a powerhouse of nuclear weapons production in the USSR. And nuclear reactors they have until today.
Another option is nuclear artillery grenades. But i have no idea whether these are simple or difficult to do. These existed during the cold war for sure.
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The former Soviet Union had its nuclear program expanded to only four of its republics: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. Chernobyl was one of the plants that could make nuclear material for nukes. Ukraine has actually an advanced nuclear engineering sector and a machinery sector from soviet times. Also, unlike other countries has experience with rocket manufacturing, so even the weapon carriers wouldn’t be a problem. The only problem could be, do they know how to detonate a nuclear bomb, every country has other ways for that do not know Ukraine has the Soviet way to start the nuclear explosion. I do not think Ukraine wants to make nuclear weapons, Zelenskyy used this to make clear that Ukraine needs to be in NATO.