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Ukraine’s Nuclear HistoryNuclear Disarmament of Ukraine

Ukraine’s Nuclear History: Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine [The authors of the chapter try to answer the question to what extent nuclear choice of Ukraine was real after the break-up of the USSR and what forcers in Ukraine drove to the decision to get rid of all nuclear weapons. The authors suggest evaluating the process of nuclear disarmament of Ukraine from the different dimensions. First is the legal framework, in particular, basic treaties defining the role of Ukraine regarding Soviet nuclear heritage and its future. Second is the technical side, giving the picture of the nuclear warheads and delivery vehicles, deployed in Ukraine: strategic, sub-strategic and tactical. Most accurate available information is given regarding exact numbers, composition and final destiny of different types of nuclear weapons and their means of delivery once based in Ukraine. Third dimension covers the political and industrial groups, involved in the decision-making process regarding disarmament. Special attention is paid to the influence of the external actors on the disarmament decision of Ukraine: in particular, Russia, the United States and the EU. And finally, the authors give a coverage of the Budapest memorandum as a document having special political influence on the further Ukrainian policy.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-030-90660-3
Pages
83 –173
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-90661-0_3
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[The authors of the chapter try to answer the question to what extent nuclear choice of Ukraine was real after the break-up of the USSR and what forcers in Ukraine drove to the decision to get rid of all nuclear weapons. The authors suggest evaluating the process of nuclear disarmament of Ukraine from the different dimensions. First is the legal framework, in particular, basic treaties defining the role of Ukraine regarding Soviet nuclear heritage and its future. Second is the technical side, giving the picture of the nuclear warheads and delivery vehicles, deployed in Ukraine: strategic, sub-strategic and tactical. Most accurate available information is given regarding exact numbers, composition and final destiny of different types of nuclear weapons and their means of delivery once based in Ukraine. Third dimension covers the political and industrial groups, involved in the decision-making process regarding disarmament. Special attention is paid to the influence of the external actors on the disarmament decision of Ukraine: in particular, Russia, the United States and the EU. And finally, the authors give a coverage of the Budapest memorandum as a document having special political influence on the further Ukrainian policy.]

Published: Feb 13, 2022

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