Unilateral nuclear disarmament of Kazakhstan. Analysis and prospectives
Isabella Abbate shows as, after having renounced nuclear weapons and relinquished a Soviet-era stock pile of more than 1,400 warheads, in 1991, Kazakhstan demonstrated that international security does not lie in nuclear weapons, but in peaceful foreign policy and political and economic development. By showing the world an example of voluntary renunciation of nuclear weapons and full nuclear disarmament, Kazakhstan continue to actively participate in the global process of nonproliferation and building a world free from nuclear weapons. In the meantime, peaceful nuclear energy, implemented under the guidelines of the internationally recognized institutions, is strictly promoted by Kazakh authorities, as opportunity for national development.
