Posted on 06/23/2022 1:28:59 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
This guy has CIA spook written all over him.
Not necessarily a spook, but easily a much used tool in their bag of tricks.
(compulsion unknown.)
An NGO that goes where our government cannot without engaging in acts of war. How convenient.
Stinks to high heaven. As if he didn’t get fair warning and probably a first class ticket in his name.
The nuclear codes weren’t technically connected to the nuclear weapons - they didn’t “unlock” anything. They were just an authenticator sent to the officers in charge of the control station. Only the US implemented a remote-unlock system for some weapons, toward the end of the Cold War.
“Technical expertise” needed would have been minimal. All of these weapons could have been dismantled and the nuclear material (plutonium) removed at the very least. That is the main requirement for building a simple nuke. And there probably were Ukrainians who could have maintained much of the weapons materiel left in Ukraine at the time.
I can guess. A lot of work in high energy physics (nuclear scientist, see) has to do with lasers, for their direct effects or sensors/instrumentation. One has to illuminate material being bombarded in a cyclotron of similar device with lasers, and design receivers for the bounced light, and etc. Lasers are very useful things.
Advanced laser guidance systems, or simpler stuff like laser rangefinders, need things like receivers for ‘bounced’ laser beams too. I see a pretty direct connection.
Ukraine produces, or produced, until the disruptions of this war, several weapons systems with laser guidance. They were probably working on others. One of them for instance is the well-known Stugna antitank system.
Odd...
Of course they could...which is precisely why the Russians never let Ukraine have control of them. At the time corrupt Ukraine officials were selling every piece of Soviet military hardware that wasn't nailed down to the highest bidder.
Even after the nukes were transferred out of Ukraine their President whined to the Russians about not 'getting paid' compensation for the warheads.
Ukraine has always been a cesspool of corruption run by worst sort of criminals.
His presence in Ukraine may offer a clue as to why Putin wanted to rid himself of such threats.
They don’t have to worry about me, I’m still in Ohio, that is unless Putin attacks the communist stronghold of Dayton!
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