On April 22, the presentation of Nikolai Steinberg’s book «Our Long Road to April», dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster, took place in Kyiv. The event gathered industry experts, the author’s colleagues from his time at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP), as well as everyone interested in the history of the […]

To explore Chernobyl’s enduring legacy, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace invites you for a panel discussion with Adam Higginbotham, Mariana Budjeryn, and Corey Hinderstein, moderated by ...

By 1991, the USSR, one of the two Cold War nuclear superpowers, ceased to exist. Yet the resulting post-Cold War era did not fully reflect these tectonic shifts. The collapse of a nuclear state did...

To explore Chernobyl’s enduring legacy, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace invites you for a panel discussion with Adam Higginbotham, Mariana Budjeryn, and Corey Hinderstein, moderated by ...

To explore Chernobyl’s enduring legacy, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace invites you for a panel discussion with Adam Higginbotham, Mariana Budjeryn, and Corey Hinderstein, moderated by ...

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What did the 1994 Budapest Memorandum teach Ukraine? “All defense-related agreements must be set out in detail,” says Mariana Budjeryn, a political scientist at MIT's Center for Nuclear Security Policy. Budjeryn believes that current negotiations with...

The Middle East War is now in its 20th day, with a perceived split in US and Israeli strategy emerging. Donald Trump says Israel bombed Iran's gas field "without his knowledge". Then Trump, perhaps playing...

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It’s a tweet pinned to the top of the official account of the US State Department: "This is OUR Hemisphere, and President Trump will not allow our security to be threatened." US diplomacy is making th...

After saying we’d back you for as long as it took, we were cowed by Putin and then grew tired

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Mariana Budjeryn, Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. 328 pp. $34.95.Editor's Introduction: Mariana B...

It’s not the damage to Fordow or Natanz.

In 1994, Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. Russia invaded anyway. Now, more nations ask: Why disarm if those promises mean nothing? Despite US President Trump…

28 March 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt16-29 | Website: rjissf.org | X: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: Elisabeth Roehrlich Production Editor: Christopher Ball Pre…

Risking discovery and even prison, teenage readers meet in secret to discuss texts that Putin’s troops are trying to erase

As President Trump casts doubt on U.S. alliances, Poland needs to double its military manpower and consider more destructive weapons, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

The disastrous Zelenzky visit to the White House caps a three-week spree of Trump breaking ranks with US traditional allies and making free concessions to Putin. The damage to US security interests is...

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In Ukraine, a winning Russia might have more to gain—and less to lose—from a nuclear strike than a retreating Russia.

The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.