Comment on Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons?

• HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There is still the Fr*nch sub’s that Macron just offered to be a shared EU resource.

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  • sith@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And what happens if Le Pen wins the next election?

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      About the same thing as if the AfD does.

      We get fucked, my friend. And that’s why establishing a shared EU army to pass the nukes to would be good for everyone.

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      • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s funny, after the breakup of USSR there existed for a few years such an entity as “CIS armed forces”. It does not anymore because national governments want to control their own militaries.

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  • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    France and the US are the only two NATO countries able to build nukes.

    Theoretically the UK are able to build nukes too but not without US support.

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The Montebello Islands disagree.

      You technically could build a nuke with enough enriched uranium. The recipe for a nuke is literally:

      • take half of the amount of the enriched uranium required
      • smash the other half into it
      • boom, Hiroshima.

      You need a particular kind of nuclear reactor to create the enriched uranium, though. But for example in Ukraine, the Chornobyl reactor was built exactly for that.

      That said, the US, the UK and France are the only three NATO countries allowed under international agreement to build nukes.

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      • macarthur_park@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You need a particular kind of nuclear reactor to create the enriched uranium

        *plutonium. Enriched uranium comes from taking natural uranium and enriching the content of a specific isotope (235U), typically with centrifuges, gaseous diffusion and/or magnetic separation in a synchrotron. The enriched uranium can be used in a weapon, or it can be used as fuel for a nuclear reactor to make 239Pu from 238U.

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