Ban the bomb by… banning the bomb? A Ukrainian response
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2017
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Анотація
When the UN First Committee voted in October to
initiate conferences at which a treaty banning nuclear
weapons would be negotiated, a country such as
Ukraine might have been expected to vote in favor.
At the end of the Cold War, after all, Ukraine had
inherited the world’s third-largest arsenal of nuclear
weapons from the Soviet Union – but Kiev gave them
up. Ukraine also joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty (NPT) as a nonnuclear weapon state, and it
remains a treaty member in good standing. Moreover,
Ukraine is threatened to its east by one of the world’s
two largest nuclear powers – and does not benefit from
the nuclear deterrence capacity of the other. So
Ukraine voted in favor of banning the Bomb – right?
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Budapest memorandum, Crimea, Donbas, NATO, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, nuclear weapon ban treaty, nuclear weapons, Russia, Ukraine, United States
Бібліографічний опис
Bulletin of the atomic scientists