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> It would have been an act of war. No it wouldn't. They were pressured by the US to give up Soviet nukes. Codes are easy to fix, but nukes need service and a
by type0 4y ago
> It would have been an act of war.
No it wouldn't.
They were pressured by the US to give up Soviet nukes. Codes are easy to fix, but nukes need service and are expensive to keep so it was as much of sparing measure than anything.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoI think you are missing my point. The Nukes were built by the soviets, but after the breakup, Russia had control of them in Ukraine. In order for Ukraine to take full possession of the nukes in their country, they would have to fight through Russians at military bases.
- type0 4y agoUSSR had one army though, but after that it was controlled by Commonwealth of Independent States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_de... If Ukrainians wanted they could have prevented this at the time of Soviet Union dissolution, but they didn't so there's not much to discuss.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoWe might be saying the same thing. My point is basically that if Ukraine tried to take full control of the Nukes in their country, they would have been picking a fight with Russia, and possibly the US as well. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/03/14/us-protests-interruption-in-moving-ukrainian-arms/a213b48c-ca0c-4fc5-b89d-7a4156a59d40/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/03/14/u... https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep10926.13?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep10926.13?seq=2#metadata_i...