The US equips Ukraine with sensors to detect nuclear explosions

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The US is supplying Ukraine with sensors to detect nuclear explosions. This is reported by the “New York Times”, citing the US Nuclear Safety Agency (NNSA). The sensors are therefore able to detect the radiation from a nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb and identify the attacker.

So far, no nuclear radiation has been detected in attacks in Ukraine. The sensors are supplied as a precaution. The equipment will make it possible to prove Russia’s guilt if it were to use nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory.

US task force on the ground

A special unit of the US Nuclear Safety Agency is currently deployed in the war country. Together with Ukraine, radiation sensors are installed, personnel are trained and data is evaluated to warn of potentially deadly radiation. The network of sensors will cover the “entire region” and be able to “determine the location, magnitude and consequences of a nuclear explosion”.

The technology should also make it impossible for Moscow to secretly use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. The sensor network can apparently identify the authorship of such a dreaded nuclear radiation. This is in case Moscow falsely claims that Kiev caused a nuclear explosion on the battlefield.

The threats from Moscow

Since the invasion of Ukraine more than 14 months ago, there have been fears that Russian war president Vladimir Putin, 70, could use nuclear weapons in combat – the first time since the US nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Moscow repeatedly claimed last fall, without providing any evidence, that Ukraine was planning to use a dirty bomb to disperse radioactive material. Washington warned the Kremlin that it would create a pretext to escalate the war. (kes)

Source: Blick