A geiger counter measures a radiation level at a site of fire burning in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, outside the village of Rahivka, Ukraine April 5, 2020. Picture taken April 5, 2020. (photo credit: YAROSLAV YEMELIANENKO/REUTERS)
New York Times: U.S. Wires Ukraine With Radiation Sensors to Detect Nuclear Blasts
The United States is wiring Ukraine with sensors that can detect bursts of radiation from a nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb and can confirm the identity of the attacker.
In part, the goal is to make sure that if Russia detonates a radioactive weapon on Ukrainian soil, its atomic signature and Moscow’s culpability could be verified.
Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine 14 months ago, experts have worried about whether President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia would use nuclear arms in combat for the first time since the American bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The preparations, mentioned last month in a House hearing and detailed Wednesday by the National Nuclear Security Administration, a federal agency that is part of the Energy Department, seem to constitute the hardest evidence to date that Washington is taking concrete steps to prepare for the worst possible outcomes of the invasion of Ukraine, Europe’s second largest nation.
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US Installs Radiation Detectors Across Ukraine To Detect The Use Of Nuclear Or Dirty Bombs
US Installing ‘Atomic Sensors’ Across Ukraine To Detect Use Of Nuclear Or Dirty Bombs By Russian Military (EurAsian Times)
Ukraine armed with radioactive detectors as US fears over Russian nuclear strike soar (Express)
US supplies Ukraine with radiation sensors in light of nuclear bomb threats - report (Jerusalem Post)
US gives Ukraine equipment to deal with nuclear attacks, NYT says (Euromaidan Press)