1991 Ukraine inherited the third largest nuclear stockpile in
the world, only behind the United States and the Russian
Federation.3 Although a 1994 agreement to transfer those
nuclear weapons over to Russia was officially deemed a
success, the problem of “loose nukes” and the nuclear
black market in Ukraine has been a serious problem for the
years before and after the supposed transfer of those
weapons and materials.4 A 2012 article in the journal
Perspective on Terrorism by Alex P. Schmid & Charlotte
Spencer-Smith lists more than two dozen incidents of
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