title: Ban the bomb by… banning the bomb?
abstract: When the UN First Committee voted in October to&#13;\ninitiate conferences at which a treaty banning nuclear&#13;\nweapons would be negotiated, a country such as&#13;\nUkraine might have been expected to vote in favor.&#13;\nAt the end of the Cold War, after all, Ukraine had&#13;\ninherited the world’s third-largest arsenal of nuclear&#13;\nweapons from the Soviet Union – but Kiev gave them&#13;\nup. Ukraine also joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation&#13;\nTreaty (NPT) as a nonnuclear weapon stat
journal: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists