History has not looked kindly upon countries that voluntarily surrender their nuclear capabilities.

In 1994, the newly independent Ukraine cheerfully agreed to destroy its massive nuclear arsenal that was inherited from the Soviet Union. In 2003, Moammar Gadhafi also surprised the world by agreeing to completely dismantle Libya’s nuclear weapons program. Today, Gaddafi is dead and Ukraine’s independence is slowly withering.

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