Author: Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer

Should Ukraine Have Kept Soviet Nuclear Weapons?

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It is widely believed that Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons that it could have used to deter Russia from the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the war of aggression launched last month. This is problematic for several reasons. Russia is using nuclear threats in order to deter NATO and European countries from direct military… Read more »