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As long as they could have taken the warheads apart, they could have built new weapons out of them. Or for that matter, just starting from already enriched fiss

• s1artibartfast 4y ago
  ....and the USA would have just sat there and accepted that? The US did not want another nuclear power and was very interested in making sure Ukraine never became one
• rchaud 4y ago
  ...and Russia would just have sat there and accepted it? We'd be on the cusp of a much bigger and earlier war. For that reason, the international community wouldn't have accepted it either, because it would open the door for everyone else to start developing them. Kazakhstan had nukes and voluntarily disarmed for this reason.