Why was the Russian Federation the only former SSR to inherit the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons and not distributed amongst them?
Why was the Russian Federation the only former SSR to inherit the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons and not distributed amongst them?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
Long story short: The fewer nuclear powers, the better. A bunch of countries promised to protect the sovereignty of these countries if they returned the weapons to russia. Didn’t quite work out.
With the acknowledgement so long as no foreign power is intervening in the country. With the color revolution (The maiden coupe) this was clearly violated