4 ms·

Well the USSR isn't around anymore and they had quite a few nukes so....

• deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
• formerkrogemp 4y ago
  But the nukes are still around. Except Ukraine gave theirs up. It's not like they had a choice.
• cjbgkagh 4y ago
  I think we got lucky with that one. A special set of circumstances that are unlikely to repeat.
  • TrevorJ 4y ago
    We got lucky with that one so far.
  • roenxi 4y ago
    Western thought severely undersells the noble and peaceful way the USSR folded up once they couldn't handle the economic madness any more. Relative to what it could have been anyway, it was no doubt terrifying for a lot of people.
• at-fates-hands 4y ago
  Which is interesting to note since a majority of the other weapons the former Soviet Union had made their way into several revolutions happening in the Middle East and Africa via several well known international arms dealers. Not sure if it was just operationally unfeasible to move something like a ballistic nuclear weapon, but from what I can gather, it was one of the few things that wasn't sold off en masse after the collapse.
  • robonerd 4y ago
    The Soviet Union (and America) made hundreds if not thousands of tactical nuclear weapons. These were very small; you could put many of them into a single standard shipping container. During the 90s there were persistent rumors that some of these had been "lost", but as far as I know these rumors were never substantiated. If in fact these weapons didn't get stolen/sold, we probably have numerous intelligence agencies to thank.