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