The Budapest Memorandum, designed to appease any reservations Ukraine may have had in acceding to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, was signed in 1994, providing security assurances by its signatories. Ukraine had the world’s third largest nuclear weapons stockpile. 20 years ago, in concord with the Budapest Memorandum,Ukraine became party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of … Continue reading Budapest Memorandum or how Ukraine lost the World’s third largest nuclear weapons stockpile