President Clinton Voices His Regrets, as Russia’s Nuclear Threat Looms Over Ukraine
The last 30 years can be seen by Iran, North Korea, and others as an object lesson in the perils of unilateral nuclear disarmament.
In the fall of 1991, Stanislau Shushkevich received me in his office in the cavernous Belarus Supreme Soviet. I asked the new leader of the one-month-old nation how many nuclear bombs were in Belarus. Shushkevich, a physicist by training, answered: “I have no idea. Ask the Russians. The Soviet Army controls all the nuclear weapons here.”
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