But to put this in proper context, we have to consider history, the events that led us up to this point. In 1994, the United States, Russia and Britain signed something called the Budapest Memorandum. This was shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. And as the Soviet Union broke up, it turned out that Ukraine, which was formerly part of the Soviet Union, had the third largest nuclear weapons stockpile in the world. (04:44–04:56)
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Asserts the signing of the Budapest Memorandum by the United States, Russia, and Britain in 1994.
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