Anyone notice this weird narrative that Ukraine was right to surrender its nukes in 1994 because they somehow couldn't actually maintain or use the weapons? That's complete bullshit.



The entire production chain for the Soviet Satan-I ICBM was located in Ukraine. The missile was designed by Yuzhnoye Design Office and built by Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant in Dnipro. The guidance computers controlling Soviet ICBMs were designed and manufactured in Kharkiv by Ukrainians (Electropribor/Khartron). Fissile material could have been enriched at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.



In fact, Russia literally needed Ukrainians to help maintain its fucking nuclear arsenal in 2006.

>https://russianforces.org/blog/2008/01/russia_and_ukraine_will_mainta.shtml



The Ukrainians were unironically the brains of the Soviet Union.

>>58056859 (OP)

>Anyone notice this weird narrative that Ukraine was right to surrender its nukes in 1994 because they somehow couldn't actually maintain or use the weapons? That's complete bullshit.



Ukraine didn't have the PAL codes, meaning that all of their existing weapons were useless. They would have had to completely rebuild the arsenal with their own PAL codes in order to have a nuclear deterrent.

>>58056859 (OP)

The warheads...

They could literally just rip out the computers they designed and rework it so they had new PAL codes. They designed and built the damn systems.

Soviet nuclear weapons were designed to fail-deadly, not fail-safe. They wanted to be sure they'd go off even if codes were lost, even if EMP interfered with communication. Code keys are very much a Western nuclear weapons design feature. The Russians didn't believe in them, especially not for the tactical nuclear artillery shells that were 95% or more of the stuff Ukraine had.

>>58056859 (OP)

It was money. You know how the US spends more on nuclear maintenance than Russia's entire military budget, so we wonder how much if their shit is actually functional? Ukraine's a far more poor country than Russia, especially back then they were also full of chaotic corruption like a lot of former Soviet states. Keeping up a nuclear arsenal and/or making sure nothing funny happened probably wasn't in the cards.

>>58056859 (OP)

Ukraine was/is full of millions of vatniks and Western leadership didn't want to risk them linking up with russia again with a full arsenal.



Don't shoot the messenger, just pointing out what no one can say. Also, before anyone gets the wrong idea from this, systematic extermination of all russoids isn't genocide because being russian is a choice.

>because being russian is a choice



If hospitals can turn men into women, can they turn Russians into humans?

>Don't shoot the messenger, just pointing out what no one can say. Also, before anyone gets the wrong idea from this

When you are mocked for basic failures in historical knowledge, practical logic, and even simple reading comprehension of the OP, please choose to learn from it

>>58056859 (OP)

Chill Iran, trust us. The west has never fucked you over before

Oh, look! We have a nuclear missile scientist here to tell us all about how it exactly works. So simple a vatnik could do it!

>>58056859 (OP)

Ukraine was de-nuked by US and their stock of strategic bombers and icbm's was destroyed under US supervision and in many cases by US companies.

You get very little out of a dollar in US compared to Russia and/or China.
