[renerick]

That's not true. All nuclear weapons in USSR were built inside modern Russian territory, there was no production in any other republic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project#Log...

[varispeed]

He probably meant Ukrainian engineers. One of the reasons Moscow is so laser focused and grabbing Ukraine as it used to be Soviet's Union brain.

[franktankbank]

Is this real? Why would Ukraine be such a concentration of brain power compared to other regions? I'm not super skeptical given the few Ukrainians I've met but still humans are generally equal...

[justsomehnguy]

> Is this real?

You can see the link in GP comment by yourself.

[lIl-IIIl]

I don't see where in the link it says that.