Atomic Blackmail?: The Weaponisation of Nuclear Facilities During the Russia-Ukraine War Bennett Simon Ashley
Atomic Blackmail?: The Weaponisation of Nuclear Facilities During the Russia-Ukraine War Bennett Simon Ashley In Atomic Blackmail? The War is being fought in proximity to nuclear facilities and…
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Atomic Blackmail?: The Weaponisation of Nuclear Facilities During the Russia-Ukraine War Bennett Simon Ashley
In Atomic Blackmail? The War is being fought in proximity to nuclear facilities and working nuclear power stations, including the six-reactor Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Europe's largest, and the decommissioned four-reactor Chernobyl NPP that, in 1986, suffered a catastrophic failure that released radioactive contamination across much of Europe. Simon Bennett examines the very real possibility of the 'weaponisation' of nuclear facilities during the Russia-Ukraine War.
In his visionary discourse, Ramberg posited that in future wars, regional or global, nuclear facilities and powerplants might be weaponised to gain political traction over an opponent and neutralise opposing forces' capacity for battlefield manoeuvre. In 1985, foreign affairs and nuclear expert Bennett Ramberg published Nuclear Power Plants: An Unrecognised Military Peril. While, at the time of