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In 1995 Boris Yeltsin very briefly considered launching nukes after a weather rocket was briefly mistaken for a missile. How did they go about turning over control of the nukes to the new government when the USSR fell? Was there any talk of not doing so?

by /u/grapp in /r/AskHistorians

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