Does Russia have nuclear weapons?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The guaranteed service life of a nuclear charge in our ballistic missile is 10 years, and then the warhead must be sent to the plant, since plutonium must be changed in it. Nuclear weapons are an expensive pleasure, requiring the maintenance of an entire industry for constant maintenance and replacement of charges. Oleksandr Kuzmuk, Minister of Defense of Ukraine from 1996 to 2001, said in an interview that there were 1,740 nuclear weapons in Ukraine (Kuzmuk: "However, the service life of those nuclear weapons expired before 1997"). Therefore, Ukraine's acceptance of a nuclear-free status was nothing more than a beautiful gesture. Kuzmuk said: “Yes, this is a beautiful gesture. But the world, apparently, does not yet appreciate beauty. " Why "before 1997"? Because even Gorbachev stopped making new nuclear warheads, and the last old Soviet warheads expired in the 90s. V. I. Rybachenkov, Advisor to the Department for Security and Disarmament of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, said: “For over 10 years Russia has not produced either weapons-grade uranium or weapons-grade plutonium. Somewhere since 1990, all this has been discontinued ".

To avoid the temptation to make new nuclear charges for ballistic missiles, the Americans made a "very profitable" deal with the leadership of Minatom (for 20 years!). The Americans bought weapons-grade uranium from our old warheads (they then promised to buy plutonium as well), and in return our reactors producing weapons-grade plutonium were shut down. In the material "Minatom of Russia: Main Milestones in the Development of the Nuclear Industry" we read: "In 1994, the Government of the Russian Federation made a decision to stop the production of weapons-grade plutonium" … We have not only expired "before 1997" the service life of old Soviet nuclear warheads for missile warheads, but we also have no plutonium to make new ones. They cannot be made from old Soviet plutonium, since the isotopic composition in it, like plutonium in warheads, has irreversibly changed. And to get new weapons-grade plutonium and make new nuclear charges for missiles, it takes more than just time: Russia no longer has either specialists or the appropriate equipment. In Russia, even the technology for making barrels for tank guns has been lost: after the first few shots, the flight of the next shells in our new tank is hardly predictable. The reasons are the same - the specialists have grown old or dispersed from non-working production facilities, and the equipment is either dilapidated, or taken away, handed over to scrap metal. It is likely that much more sophisticated technologies for obtaining weapons-grade plutonium and creating nuclear charges from it have long been lost. Russia has set up a unique experiment to destroy the technosphere of a modern technogenic society. In today's regime, the technosphere is melting before our eyes; society is losing technology, infrastructure, and most importantly - people who are able to work not only as sellers. And this fundamentally changes our relations with other countries.

Why did they stand on ceremony with us until recently, and not slammed in the late 90s? After the expiration of the warranty period, nuclear charges are capable of exploding for some time. Let it not be explosions of the power for which they were designed earlier, but if several blocks in New York are demolished and hundreds of thousands of people die, then the American government will have to explain. Therefore, the US government allocated the US Department of Energy the most powerful supercomputers for scientists to simulate the processes of degradation in nuclear charges. No money was spared for these purposes, the American elite wanted to know for sure when not a single Russian nuclear warhead would explode. The scientists gave the answer, and when the estimated time came, American policy towards us changed as fundamentally as our nuclear status. Our rulers were simply sent to one place …

In the spring of 2006, joint articles by Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press appeared (in Foreign Affairs and International Security) on the possibility of delivering a disarming strike against the Russian nuclear forces. Lieber and Press launched an open discussion - in a democratic country everything must be discussed beforehand (although decisions are made by other people even before discussion). In Moscow, they sensed unkindness and were worried only by leavened patriots, the elite didn’t give a damn, American plans coincided with her plans (they were not going to leave her “the weapon of retaliation” after leaving the completely devastated “this country”? Of course not). But then the position of our elite "suddenly" became complicated. In early 2007, the influential Washington Post published an article recommending that they no longer flirt with our ruling elite, since there is no real force behind it, but put the crooks in their place. Here Putin's own roof was blown off, and he rolled his Munich speech about a multipolar world. And in early 2008, Congress instructed Condoleezza Rice to compile a list of leading Russian corrupt officials. Who honestly earned big money from us? No one. The last fog cleared away, and our elite acutely felt the impending end.

Recently, President Medvedev announced ambitious plans in the military sphere - “Serial construction of warships is planned, primarily nuclear submarine cruisers with cruise missiles and multipurpose submarines. An aerospace defense system will be created. " To which Condoleezza Rice coldly replied in an interview with Reuters: "The balance of forces in terms of nuclear deterrence will not change from these actions." … Why would he change? What will Medvedev load onto ships and cruise missiles? There are no suitable nuclear charges. We only have false targets on our missiles, there are no real targets. Building missile defense against missiles like "Satan" is madness, you miss once, and goodbye to a dozen large cities. But against the radioactive scrap metal, which today stands on our missiles instead of warheads (most likely, it was removed, since the old weapon-grade plutonium is very hot - hot like an iron), you can create a missile defense against it, and if the missile defense misses, then nothing special terrible will not happen, although it is unpleasant to then disinfect a hectare of your territory. The missile defense system is intended to catch radioactive scrap metal when we will be finally disarmed. The elite do not like missile defense, not because it is around Russia, but because the elite is not allowed out of Russia, they have been turned into a hostage of their own games.

For 30 years, the balance of nuclear deterrence was determined by treaties between the USSR and the United States. But now the United States is not proposing to start a new contractual process, tk. there is nothing more to negotiate … Putin rushed to legalize the border with China, and China, in turn, began to publish textbooks, where almost all of Siberia and the Far East are designated as territories illegally taken away by Russia from China.

The EU offered Russia to sign the Energy Charter, according to which the EU will extract oil and gas on our territory, transport them to itself, and in exchange it is offered a reward - a cookie and butter. EU officials frankly explained that Russia now has three options for the future: to lie under the EU, to lie under the United States, or to become a cheap Chinese labor force.

After Russia transformed from a real superpower into a former, the situation around the bank accounts of our elite began to escalate sharply. The UN recently adopted a convention on corruption, and the West is not joking today, it is going to apply it against our kleptocracy. So the West decided to repay our traitors for their betrayal.“Rome does not pay traitors” for a very good reason - so that the vile strategy of survival (as we have today) does not win in society, and society afterwards does not fall into tartar (as we have today), for this the vile strategy must receive inevitable retribution. If today they reward other people's traitors and thereby make betrayal the norm, then tomorrow in their own camp there will be plenty of people willing to trade in their "national interests." When ancient Rome began to forget the word "duty", and mercenaries from distant countries began to fight in its legions, one of the Roman armies met in the East with a very strong army. The mercenaries did not want to risk it and forced their commander to come to an agreement with the enemy "in an amicable way." The enemy agreed to the deal, but at night he killed all the mercenaries, and locked the commander in the tower, and so that the whole city could hear his cries, he was tortured for a long time at night, thus teaching his fellow citizens to a simple thought - betrayal does not pay off. East is a delicate matter.

The conversation of our rulers with the West turned into "mine, don't understand," both sides talk about completely different things, ours to them - "You promised us!", And those to ours - "So you have nothing else but a cheap bluff!" (sending our Tu-160 to Venezuela did not cause a new Cuban missile crisis, as it was perceived by the "probable enemy" solely as clownery). In that world, they retain their obligations only to the strong. Russia's richest natural resources cannot belong not to a superpower, this is "not fair", they should be owned by those who are able to protect them, they will be taken by the superpowers - either the USA, or the EU, or China.