ukraine nuclear weapons

Ukraine was once the world’s 3rd largest nuclear power on Earth—here’s why it gave them up | World News – The Times of India

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After the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Ukraine was left with one of the world’s largest nuclear stockpiles. The third-largest nuclear power, it inherited around 5,000 nuclear weapons, including intercontinental missiles that could deliver thermonuclear warheads. After having this powerful arsenal, Ukraine took the unprecedented step of relinquishing its nuclear weapons…

Ukraine, pummeled by Russia now, had world’s third-biggest nuclear stockpile

alishpagda08@gmail.com7 months ago09 mins

It wasn’t the UK, France or China, but Ukraine that had the world’s third-biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons. Now a non-nuclear nation, Ukraine also had over 170 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) and thermonuclear warheads but traded-off the entire arsenal for independence. That history might be causing some heartache among Ukrainians as Ukraine claims to have…