The Disintegration of the USSR and the Fate of the Soviet Nuclear Arsenal
Journal: Journal of Cold War Studies
Year: 2025

Mariana Budjeryn, Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. 328 pp. $34.95.Editor's Introduction: Mariana Budjeryn's book Inheriting the Bomb provides an in-depth analysis of the domestic and international political context of the decision by Ukraine in the first half of the 1990s to relinquish the Soviet nuclear forces that were left on its territory after the breakup of the USSR in late 1991. That deci