The Nuclear Option in Ukraine

Mike

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It is reported on the BBC radio news this morning, that
the Russians are not talking about destroying a whole
city, with one nuclear bomb, but to use smaller ones,
battlefield options like artillery shells, plus other types.

Still a very bad idea, will it ever stop, I wonder.

Mike.
 

If there is a nuclear attack and important thing to consider is to stay upwind of where the bomb exploded for the first 18 hours of fallout. The wind carries the fallout in the direction it will go. When the winds change direction figure where the fallout will go from there. This is something from when I had training about it when I was in the Army a long time ago. So, with that said I would say that it is highly possible given with the prevailing westerlies. The direction the wind normally comes from the nuclear fallout would most likely flow back into Russia.
 

Lawrence said:
If there is a nuclear attack and important thing to consider is to stay upwind of where the bomb exploded for the first 18 hours of fallout. The wind carries the fallout in the direction it will go. When the winds change direction figure where the fallout will go from there. This is something from when I had training about it when I was in the Army a long time ago. So, with that said I would say that it is highly possible given with the prevailing westerlies. The direction the wind normally comes from the nuclear fallout would most likely flow back into Russia.
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that's a very good point :unsure:
 
I think it's a bluff by Putin and would only strengthen the resolve of Ukraine and lead to further isolation of Russia. There could even be a tit for tat response with the West providing what was needed by Ukraine.
 
Polish officials have started handing out anti-radiation tablets nationwide, as fears grow of nuclear exposure triggered by the war in neighbouring Ukraine.

Fire departments have been handed the tablets as a response to the current fighting around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant - Europe's largest - which has raised fears of a nuclear disaster.

Officials described the move as a 'preventative' and 'preemptive' measure.

'We decided on a preventative, preemptive move to start distributing potassium iodide tablets to district fire departments,' Deputy Interior Minister Blazej Pobozy told reporters.
He said it was a routine initiative 'in case of a potential radiation threat, which... at the moment does not exist.'

The tablets will be transferred to local authorities and eventually end up at distribution points - schools in most cases - where residents will pick them up if need be.

He said there were enough doses for everyone who would require them.
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Just look at the audience's reaction to Putin's speech. They don't look too happy about what he's doing.
 
Russia has been forced to withdraw troops from a key Ukrainian city this afternoon as Ukraine's eastern counter-offensive recaptures more territory.

Ukrainian forces encircled the strategic eastern city of Lyman on Saturday in a counter-offensive that has humiliated the Kremlin, while Russian bombardments intensified after Moscow illegally annexed a swath of Ukrainian territory in a sharp escalation of the war.

Russia's own Tass and RIA news agencies announced that troops have fled Lyman, citing the Russian defense ministry.

It comes after the Russian leader was pictured grinning and laughing yesterday after he annexed four Ukrainian reasons following what the west has blasted as sham referendums.

Lyman is 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city. Ukrainian forces had pushed across the Oskil River as part of a counteroffensive that saw Kyiv retake vast swathes of territory beginning in September.

The city is a key transportation hub and has been an important site in the Russian front line for both ground communications and logistics.

The city is symbolically important too as it is in an area Russia claims to have annexed under its control.

Now with it gone, Ukraine can push further potentially into the occupied Luhansk region, which is one of four regions that Russia annexed Friday after an internationally criticized referendum vote at gunpoint.
 
Are the Ukrainians going to stop the Russian army from occupying the annexed territories? If they can, with the help of the more modernized artillery and soldiers...fine, Russia retreats, but if they have small nuclear arms, the Ukrainians will lose. Then is the U.S. and N.A.T.O. allies going to go in to the Ukraine? WWIII?
 

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