In 1994, Ukraine had a gigantic nuclear arsenal (3rd after Russia and the US) until it signed the Budapest Memorandum and handed over 1,600 nuclear weapons left over from the former Soviet Union to Russia in exchange for a peace treaty and a guarantee never to be invaded or threatened.

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From left: Russian President Boris Yeltsin, U.S. President Bill Clinton, President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, and British Prime Minister John Majo, sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty in the Budapest Convention Center, Hungary on Dec. 5, 1994. 


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