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When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Ukraine inherited part of its nuclear arsenal, but in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine agreed to return the weapons to Russia in exchange for “assurances” from it, the UK and the US that its sovereignty and borders would be respected. Moscow brazenly contravened this promise when it annexed Crimea in 2014, and tore up the memorandum with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. Many observers have concluded that Ukraine made a fateful mistake by agreeing to surrender its nuclear arsenal (once the world’s third largest). In the early 196...

Jul 08, 2022 // With Russia’s war in Ukraine, many observers have concluded that Ukraine made a fateful mistake by agreeing to surrender its nuclear arsenal in 1994. However, the real lesson from the war is that we must reinforce the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, argues Harvard’s Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

Will Ukraine war fuel nuclear proliferation?

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Ukraine inherited part of its nuclear arsenal. But under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine agreed to return these weapons to Russia in exchange for “assurances” from Moscow, the UK and the US that its sovereignty and borders would be respected. Russia brazenly violated this promise when it annexed Crimea in 2014 and tore up the