Where Are Ukraine’s Nuclear Weapons

Due to the Budapest memorandum Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons for security, but it didn’t go well.

Karthick Nambi
3 min readNov 29, 2022
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Only a handful of countries possessed nuclear warheads during the Cold War’s peak. Most of the stockpiles belonged to either USSR or USA. When the Soviet bloc broke down, guess who had the third-largest nuclear weapon stockpiles? Ukraine. Where is the nuclear weapon now?

World War II:

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World War II was the ultimate race to find the most potent weapon. Axis and Allied scientists were racing to beat each other with technology. The Germans developed V rockets which rocked Britain. German radar helped the German airforce to bomb accurately. Meanwhile, the British scientists broke the German intelligence code Enigma and were one step ahead of the Germans.

Atom Bomb:

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The biggest game changer was the weapon development in the Manhattan Project. The top minds of the USA…

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