Oleg Vyshniakov - Ukraine and Israel. The US and Israel begin nuclear cooperation.

Good afternoon!
Taking into consideration the events which are taking place in the world, the question of nuclear weapons or its absence is becoming more drastic. Despite such weapons’ fatality all countries with more or less developed economies want to be "a rib" of nuclear umbrella.

Ukraine had quite a significant nuclear armory. But in 1994 by signing Budapest Memorandum Ukraine exchanged rockets for security guarantees of the signatory countries such as Russia, the USA and the UK. As we can see today, the solution of Ukrainian politicians was not the most forward-looking. Who knows what would happen today if Ukraine didn’t give the second largest stockpiles of nuclear warheads in the Soviet Union.

Ukraine has very low chances to get a nuclear capability once again.

In this regard Israel is more forward-looking. Despite pressure from the leading nuclear-weapon states, Israel has never signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Paying attention to the difficult geopolitical situation in the country, Israeli politicians have always thought of borders’ protection in the physical sense.

Yesterday Haim Levinson, the Israeli journalist, wrote that the USA agreed in public to cooperate with Israel in atoms for peace. Declaration on the beginning of such program is a crucial change in American policy. Until now the USA withhold cooperation in atomic projects with counties that refused to sign the NPT. Such a refusal makes it impossible to maintain official control over atomic facilities of the countries.

Until now cooperation between Israel and America in the field of atomic power was an unofficial one. According to analytics, such a change took place after signing an agreement between leading powers and Iran.

In the framework of so-called strategic dialogue between Israel and the USA Yuval Steinitz, the  Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources within his working visit to the USA, met with  the representatives of corresponding American department, and after this a message about the beginning of the official cooperation appeared.

Unfortunately, an attempt of the world community to make demilitarization a new trend has failed. Current situation shows how unstable and fragile the system of security agreements and non-aggression pacts is; the system that was diligently formed by the world community after the World War II. Regrettably we have to protect freedom with arm in hand. Israelis know it better that anybody and won’t miss a chance to increase national defense capability.