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Ukraine did not have the codes for the Soviet nukes stationed on their territory so the nukes were unusable. It made sense for them to give them away; otherwise
by dh2022 3y ago
Ukraine did not have the codes for the Soviet nukes stationed on their territory so the nukes were unusable. It made sense for them to give them away; otherwise their options would have been either sell what they can on the black market or maintain them at considerable cost.
- Rinzler89 3y agoPlus 90's bankrupt post communist Ukraine had no money to properly maintain those nukes. Nukes aren't very shelf stable, they need constant maintenance to be firing ready.
- baybal2 3y ago[dead]
- adriancr 3y agotake the nuke apart and rebuild it with a different controller, no need to know codes. (that is if they actually had codes different then 0000) they likely gave them up do to political reasons (they still had russian influenced politicians in charge plus threats if they did not)
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> take the nuke apart and rebuild it with a different controller Or just carefully reverse engineer while harvesting the HEU to jumpstart your own programme. In the midst, message ambiguity about whether you’ve cracked the codes.
- baybal2 3y ago[dead]