Nuclear weapons are being turned into a tool for preserving power among dictators

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On August 6 is the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 and the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

The Center for Strategic Communications explains how nuclear weapons are turning into an instrument of threats to the whole world, manipulation and preservation of power among dictators.

▪️ Ukraine consistently adheres to the principles of non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament. We voluntarily gave up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal.

▪️ Unfortunately, the security guarantees that Ukraine received in exchange for giving up nuclear weapons turned out to be ineffective. One of the guarantor states attacked our country.

▪️ The idea of nuclear disarmament was based on faith in the system of international security and compliance by countries with their obligations. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, such faith no longer exists.

▪️ The Ukrainian trend of nuclear disarmament in the 1990s has changed to the opposite: more states are trying to create their own nuclear programs, and Russia has returned nuclear weapons to Belarus, a country that once gave up its nuclear arsenal just as much as Ukraine.

▪️ For a long time, nuclear weapons were considered a means of deterring war. Today we see how it is turning into a tool for maintaining power by dictatorial regimes and a means of intimidating non-nuclear states.

▪️ Moscow irresponsibly and shamelessly resorts to nuclear blackmail. Russia has failed the maturity test as a country capable of possessing nuclear weapons. Denuclearization of the Russian Federation meets the interests of humanity.