Assurances and the Nuclear Arsenal in Ukraine

U.S. President Clinton, Russian President Yeltsin, and Ukrainian President Kravchuk

11 a.m., March 30, 2025

Join us this Sunday, either in person or online, as we discuss whether Ukraine should have given up the nuclear weapons on its soil thirty years ago. Was this a wise decision? Given the war in Ukraine today, would things be different if they had not done so?

First, we’ll watch a Voice of America report, Ukraine looks back with regret at 1994 deal requiring it to give up nukes, covering details of the Budapest Agreement and events after its signing.

In the second video, Should Ukraine have kept its nuclear weapons?, the Kyiv Independent’s reporter Oleg Sukhov sat down with Robert Kelley, an engineer with 35 years of experience in the U.S. Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons complex, to discuss whether the weapons Ukraine gave up would be of much use now, and if the country still has the capacity to produce a nuclear device.

Join us to discuss this currently relevant topic on the history of Ukraine.

You can watch the first, four-minute video at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms5xaBH2arY,
and the second, eleven-minute video at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Eb9E1anaGY.

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