"I think it's more likely that all of this happened behind the back of Russia." My knowledge of the event is solely based on the article. but it does specifica

"I think it's more likely that all of this happened behind the back of Russia." My knowledge of the event is solely based on the article. but it does specifically mention that the us wanted and asked russia to take the material but russia did not want it. I know that at this time the us was buying a lot of fissibles from russia as well. I think the theory was that 1. it would inject money into russia which was broke and 2 it would remove the fissables from ending up on the open market. win-win. Honestly I would love to read a good in depth history of the breakup of the soviet-union. I don't really understand what happened at all.