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Re:DARPA's hypersonic scramjet achieves successful flight by sudosysgen on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:13PM (#28739206)
Ukraine did not have as much of a choice as one would think. All the nukes were set up to be controlled by Moscow and it would have taken enough time to bypass the controls that the Russian army could feasibly have invaded or destroyed them.
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Re:DARPA's hypersonic scramjet achieves successful flight by qaq on Sunday October 03, 2021 @02:25PM (#28739328)
They were not a major portion of Nuclear Weapons R&D and manufacturing were done in Ukraine including design and manufacture of majority of electronics including guidance systems, comms etc. as well as most top tear weapons were designed by Yuzhnoye Design Office (Dnepr Ukraine) and manufactured by Yuzhny Machine-Building Plant (Dnepr Ukraine)
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Re:DARPA's hypersonic scramjet achieves successful flight by sudosysgen on Sunday October 03, 2021 @06:16PM (#28740981)
Ukraine indeed had a lot of manufacturing and design of nuclear weapons. Even then the control, launch and timings were all centralized in Moscow. They would have had to reverse engineer and hack a lot of it amidst attacks from Russia and perhaps even the US.
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Re:DARPA's hypersonic scramjet achieves successful flight by qaq on Sunday October 03, 2021 @11:27PM (#28742698)
I think you are still confused the control systems were designed and manufactured in Ukraine there was nothing to reverse eng. The only step not done in Ukraine was uranium enrichment.
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