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Comment: Disintegration of the Soviet Union and the threat of nuclear proliferation.

  • UPSC 1992
  • 20 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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When the Soviet Union dissolved on 26 December 1991, an arsenal of some 30,000 warheads lay across four new states. It remains the only time a nuclear power has fragmented. In 1992 the fear was a "loose nukes" cascade of new nuclear states, stolen material and scientists for hire. That it was largely not realised…

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