> There isn't a single mention of nuclear weapons in the Budapest Memorandum. https://web.archive.org/web/20170312052208/http://www.cfr.org/nonproliferation-ar

> There isn't a single mention of nuclear weapons in the Budapest Memorandum. https://web.archive.org/web/20170312052208/http://www.cfr.org/nonproliferation-arms-control-and-disarmament/budapest-memorandums-security-assurances-1994/p32484 https://web.archive.org/web/20170312052208/http://www.cfr.or... Points 4 and 5 mention and are about use of nuclear weapons. I think the memorandum was intended to be a security guarantee to Ukraine after they (and Belarus, and Kazakhstan) joined the NPT and transferred formerly-Soviet nuclear weapons to the Russian Federation. I don't know why anyone would suggest otherwise.