The USSR is becoming a loose confederation of sovereign states. Not unlike our Congress.

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- One nervous question about the Soviet breakup is what will happen to the country's 27,000 nuclear weapons. Even if one went to each Soviet expert in the United States, there wouldn't be enough nukes to go around.- Bill Tammeus, Kansas City Star

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