UA/RU RISKS: Threats to NPPs, of N Weapons Use

[Sculpture depicting St. George slaying the dragon, created from fragments of Soviet and US nuclear missiles that were destroyed under a treaty. Photo:UN Photo/Milton Grant]

Ukraine’s (UA) president, Zelensky, warned the annual United Nations (UN) General Assembly of world leaders yesterday Russia (RU) is threatening to attack UA’s nuclear power plants. This, while the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in UA, long occupied by Russian troops, and the Kursk NPP in RU, are precariously near front line combat between the two countries’ militaries. This has elicited recent warnings from the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency Director General, Grossi, on UA and RU. Meanwhile, the president of RU, Putin, announced Russian nuclear weapons policy has changed, allowing their use against a non-nuclear armed country, like UA, if its conventional attacks against RU are supported by a nuclear weapon-state, like France, the UK, or US.