We're a Non Nuclear State

When ukrane first declared sovereignty, this is while the soviet union is still going on. The declaration said, we're a non nuclear state. Now they're the place where shernoble blew up. This whole issue of nuclear power was a hazard, not an asset. To keep em would have meant paria status like north corea to day. Needed aid from the united states. They needed russian oil and gas. And fundamentally, the nuclear weapons were turning into little sure nobles the longer they sat there.