[Carry_Okie]

Just for the record it was Clinton that was involved in that in 1994. Bush I served from 1989-1992.

Memory hadn't failed me. Clinton concluded what Bush had started:

At a Dec. 21, 1991 conference at Alma-Ata, the Soviet Republics of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine pledged to return all Soviet tactical nuclear weapons on their territories to Russia by July 1, 1992. All three states met their commitments despite the Soviet Union’s breakup four days after these pledges were made. Otherwise, Russia has released little information substantiating its PNI activities. At the May 2005 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference, Moscow announced that all Russian tactical nuclear weapons “are now deployed only within the national territory and are concentrated at central storage facilities of the Ministry of Defense.” In 2007, Colonel-General Vladimir Verkhovtsev remarked, “Russia particularly committed itself to removing tactical nuclear weapons from the ground forces completely. Those weapons were also cut by 50 percent in the Air Force, by 60 percent in missile defense troops and by 30 percent on nuclear submarines of the Russian Navy,” the general said.

[Robert DeLong]

I stand corrected o tat point then, but none of those nuclear weapons were launchable from the nations that were housing them without the Soviet Union’s or later, Russia’s authorization for them to be launched. By authorization, I mean direct actions taken that open up the ability to launch via actions, not just verbale approval. 🙂👍