This is John Batchel, conversation with colleague Henry Sikolsky, the executive director of the

Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center, about remarks by the President of Ukraine in these last

hours, Mr. Zelensky, about Ukraine building an atomic bomb, not acquiring one, building one.

And Henry explains how and how it's straightforward

it is, and why Mr. Putin is threatening retaliation if and when. In other words, the suspect

nuclear weapons program of Iran is now the suspect nuclear weapons program of Ukraine. More of this

tonight. Biden is being accused now of having pulled

his punch and not giving weapons and weapons launch authority to the Ukrainians for long-range

weaponry out of a fear that, oh, it might provoke the Russians to use nuclear weapons. So,

what do you do if you're Mr. Zelensky?

You say, well, okay, that's one nuclear threat.

Well, what do you think of this?

What if we got nuclear weapons?

You wouldn't like that either, would you?

Having said it, he immediately took it back.

However, he also had somebody commission a study that would explain how they would get it.

And how they would get it isn't through enriching uranium.

They would take the spent fuel from, you know, up until now, safeguarded reactors

and extract the 1% of that material that's plutonium

that you can use to make bombs.

They could do it.

I mean, it is not, you know,

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