[Saline9515]

By now the nukes would have been useless. You need to have a continuous ballistic and nuclear program to manufacture new nukes and missiles as the old ones become stale.

[neverminder]

I think Ukraine would have no problem maintaining it's own nuclear program from purely technical perspective, considering they have a number of nuclear plants and expertise. Plutonium is a byproduct of a nuclear plant, they wouldn't even have to bother with uranium enrichment.

[danny_codes]

Presumably if you kept your nukes you’d built that capacity

[etc-hosts]

That takes money. Ukraine was very poor in 1993. It's even poorer now.