Malta has told the United Nations that it could totally build a nuclear bomb if it wanted to.
Malta recently became the 84th country to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which prohibits the production, stockpiling, transfer, stationing and threat of use of nuclear weapons.
“Just to be clear, the only reason we don’t build a nuke isn’t because we’re a small country – it’s because we don’t feel like it,” said Vanessa Frazier, Malta’s permanent representative to the UN.
“If we really wanted to, rest assured we are more than capable of obtaining uranium, enriching it and putting it in an intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the United States, Russia, or China. In fact, we might have a secret underground testing facility beneath Gozo right now, and you can’t prove otherwise.”
Frazier added that just because Malta could not be bothered with nuclear weapons right now, that didn’t mean this would always be the case.
“Don’t even think about pissing us off, or we’ll get Ian Borg on the project. He built a flyover system in three years, you know.”
