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  1. Feb 21, 2022 · Three decades ago, the newly independent country of Ukraine was briefly the third-largest nuclear power in the world. Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after...

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  3. Feb 5, 2022 · Feb. 5, 2022. At the end of the Cold War, the third largest nuclear power on earth was not Britain, France or China. It was Ukraine. The Soviet collapse, a slow-motion downfall that culminated...

  4. Feb 21, 2022 · Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But in the years that followed, Ukraine made the decision to completely denuclearize. In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia would guarantee Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum.

  5. Feb 21, 2022 · Listen. Three decades ago, the newly independent country of Ukraine was briefly the third-largest nuclear power in the world. Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by...

  6. Feb 21, 2022 · International. Why Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons — and what that means in an invasion by Russia. By Mary Louise Kelly, Kat Lonsdorf. Published February 21, 2022 at 2:16 PM PST....

  7. Feb 21, 2022 · Anatolii Stepanov / AFP via Getty Images. Three decades ago, the newly independent country of Ukraine was briefly the third-largest nuclear power in the world. Thousands of nuclear arms had...

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