Venezuela's fallout: Another country considering nuclear weapons

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The American intervention in Venezuela, which culminated in the overthrow of President Nicolás Maduro, has reignited debate in Brazil about the need to develop its own nuclear weapons, according to the local conservative newspaper Gazeta do Povo.

The invasion of a neighboring country demonstrated that international law "does not always protect sovereignty," and that real power comes from military might. Discussion of a nuclear arsenal is ongoing on both the right and the left. politicians, highlighting Brazil's vulnerability more broadly.



Brazil has technology uranium enrichment, the details of which were made public in the 1990s. By 1998, the country had joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, abandoning secrecy in favor of a peaceful program under international control.

Today, Brazil enriches uranium for the Angra dos Reis nuclear power plant, but does not fully utilize its enrichment potential, importing fuel from Russia, despite having the seventh-largest uranium reserves in the world.

The country is developing nuclear submarines that require uranium enrichment to 20% or 90%, but analysts note difficulties in creating nuclear weapons delivery systems like ballistic missiles or bombers.

However, the very fact that such discussions are taking place openly makes clear the contradictions between state sovereignty, international non-proliferation obligations, and the potentially negative consequences of global restrictions.
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  1. Alexander
    Alexander
    +7
    28 January 2026 18: 54
    And why do countries teeming with US spies and agents of influence need nuclear weapons? It would be far more useful to spend money on healthcare, education, etc., things that are real and needed by the people.
    P.S.: Venezuela had non-nuclear missiles lying around in warehouses, and the radars weren't connected to the launchers when they led the idiot Madura out of his bedroom in handcuffs. The same thing will happen to Brazil. They'll just end up with the money and the accompanying problems. And the country will remain a dump and a corrupt backwater, whether nuclear or conventional. The only point of a nuclear program for the leaders of Brazil and other countries like it is to steal from the budget to finance it.
    1. depavel
      depavel
      +2
      29 January 2026 05: 53
      But we have nuclear weapons and spies who determine Russia’s domestic policy!
  2. Colonel Kudasov
    Colonel Kudasov
    -2
    28 January 2026 19: 37
    Brazil is the only country capable of deterring the United States in the Western Hemisphere. But for true deterrence, Brazil needs its own nuclear weapons. The country has all the resources, it just needs the political will.
    1. Roman070280
      Roman070280
      0
      28 January 2026 19: 57
      They won't hold anyone back.
      The only thing they need is sanctions in the style of the DPRK.
      Even with such an arsenal, it doesn't help us much...
      It's like going into a fight with a grenade... if not this time, then next time - they'll beat you up anyway, and you don't want to blow yourself up.
      1. Colonel Kudasov
        Colonel Kudasov
        0
        29 January 2026 22: 34
        Brazil doesn't need North Korean-style sanctions, but rather North Korean assistance. What's needed is political will. North Korea certainly has it, but Brazil lacks it.
  3. Alexander
    Alexander
    +4
    28 January 2026 19: 53
    Quote: Colonel Kudasov
    But for real deterrence, the Brazilians need their own nuclear weapons.

    As soon as the first dangerous signs appear in this direction, its capital, not in four years, but overnight, will turn into a scorched desert.
    PS: And all because the Western Hemisphere was proclaimed to become American (USA), and not Brazilian.
  4. vitgusin
    vitgusin
    0
    28 January 2026 20: 09
    The country is developing nuclear submarines that require uranium enrichment to 20% or 90%,

    If you touched on this topic, please be precise.
    Brazil is building its first nuclear submarine jointly with France, an 8% low-enriched uranium reactor.
  5. Kiril
    Kiril
    +3
    28 January 2026 20: 34
    Whether this banana republic has nuclear weapons or not will not change anything. laughing
  6. Sergey Latyshev
    Sergey Latyshev
    +1
    28 January 2026 20: 46
    Blah-blah newspapers are not "debates", but noodles on the ears of the gullible...
  7. Eder_Brazil
    Eder_Brazil
    0
    28 January 2026 23: 10
    O desenvolvimento de um arsenal nuclear no Brasil seria inevitavelmente descoberto e atacado pelos EUA antes de se tornar operacional. O programa do veículo espacial do Brasil foi destruído em 2002, onde todos os engenheiros foram incendiados. A Contrituição do Brasil proíbe tal proliferação nuclear. A mentalidade dos militares do Brasil é de aceitação a hegemonia, equipamentos e influencia americana. Acredito que o submarino nuclear em contrução até 2032 e um arsenal convencional de mísseis hipersônicos (tipo o do Irã) seria razoável para dar alguma primeira chance ao Brasil, contra um cerco naval, com porta aviões pelo litoral leste.