Episode Notes:

Ankit sat down with Mariana Budjeryn, a researcher on the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center and the author of Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine. The two talk about the decisions Ukraine had to make about the future of the Soviet nuclear force left on its soil and what the Ukrainian experience with nuclear disarmament – as well as the current conflict in Ukraine – can reveal about the future of nonproliferation.