Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine - The Us Perspective

Ukrane was not in a very good position to make use of these nuclear weapons, even as a deterrent. They didn't have the ability to conduct detailed maintenance work on forces that were stationed in their country. The permissive action linksor things that you used to actually make a warhead usable, that are on the missile itself, those were controlled from moscow and not the cranian government. And also, their operational control wasn't in the hands of ukraine for what they got from it. This became a sticking point of negotiations between the ukraine in russia, and then eventually the us.