Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmament - A History

In December 1994, Ukraine gave up the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world and signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, having received assurances that its sovereignty would be respected and secured by Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Based on original and heretofore unavailable documents, Yuri Kostenko's account of the negotiations between Ukraine, Russia, and the US reveals for the first time the internal debates of the Ukrainian government as well as the pressure exerted upon it by its international partners.Kostenko presents an insider's view on the issue of nuclear disarmament and raises the question of whether the complete and immediate dismantlement of the country's enormous nuclear arsenal was strategically the right decision, especially in view of the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, one of the guarantors of Ukraine's sovereignty under denuclearization.

Product details

• Authors: Yuri Kostenko
• Assisted by: Paul J. D’Anieri (Introduction), Paul J. D’Anieri (Afterword), Olena Jennings (Translation), Lidia Wolanskyj (Translation), Krasynska Svitlana (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780674249301
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24930-1
• No. of pages: 350
• Dimensions: 188 mm x 260 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies; Economics & Business Aust Curriculum series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Russia, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / World, military history, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, HISTORY / Military / Weapons, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, Nuclear weapons, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Weapons & equipment, Ordnance, weapons technology, Weapons and equipment, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era