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How did Ukraine come to possess—and then relinquish—the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal, and what does that history tell us about European security today? Mariana Budjeryn is the author of Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine, winner of the 2024 William E. Colby Military Writers' Award. A native of Ukraine and one of the world's leading experts on post-Soviet nuclear history, she brings unparalleled insight into the forces shaping the war in Ukraine and the future of the European security order.