With all that said, we often forget that Ukraine started its path toward independent statehood with a preference to become a state free of nuclear weapons.
Formal cooperation between existing NWFZs is currently limited to the Conferences of Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Mongolia that are held in New York every five years (since 2005) in the lead up...
Cluster munitions constitute a substantial part of the military arsenals of all major powers. Their development, procurement and stockpile are a central hard component of national security.
At the same time, the Non-Proliferation Treaty foresees the cooperation between the parties to the Treaty in the peaceful use of nuclear energy and affirms the "inalienable right of all the Parties...