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Henchman21 2 days ago

There is no plan, and I am not sure why you’d think otherwise?

mrtksn 2 days ago | parent [-]

I think there must be a plan after the USSR collapse. Somehow they did not let rough agents obtaining the warheads but there were enough rumors, literature and media around it to prompt a consideration IMHO.

johannes1234321 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

By the time you could act it's too late, if you don't want to dismantle the nukes independently. It's a consequence of the existence.

Just imagine Biden having commanded to trigger a process which destroys the nuclear material (by triggering some degeneratio process or something) would that have been accepted or would everybody have said that limits U.S.'s strategic options permantly in too high degree?

KerrAvon 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

tl;dr: the Soviet state didn't collapse in the manner of a zombie apocalypse or environmental catastrophe, it collapsed politically; there was continuity in command / control until the weapons were all moved back physically into Russia.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/16mab9x/when...