The 1994 Budapest Memorandum — and Why You Should Care

S M Chen
6 min readMar 3, 2022

It is 1994.

The former USSR — the Soviet Union — is no more.

It has fallen.

Ukraine finds itself with nuclear weapons.

Some 1900 of them.

It is, after Russia and the U.S., the 3rd major nuclear power.

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