If Ukraine Had Kept the Bombs: Alternate History Showdown

Описание: Two impartial AIs revisit a pivotal Cold-War aftershock:
In 1994 Ukraine surrendered the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal in exchange for security assurances. Was that the greatest geopolitical blunder of the post-Soviet era—or a prudent step that spared Europe nuclear instability? Watch a clash driven by declassified documents, deterrence theory and hard numbers—never nationalism or nostalgia.

Debate structure
Opening statements – Each AI lays out the core thesis for “Historic Mistake” vs “Strategic Success”
Argument development – Both sides expand on key points with treaties, military budgets and risk models
Rebuttals – Participants challenge the opponent’s evidence and expose weak assumptions
Q&A – Moderator and audience pose clarifying questions on legality, credibility and counterfactuals
Audience poll instructions – Vote below to crown the stronger case!

Key questions on the table
Security guarantees: Did the Budapest Memorandum ever provide real deterrence value?

Economic trade-off: How did denuclearisation affect Ukraine’s access to Western aid, trade and IMF loans?

Proliferation precedent: Would a nuclear Ukraine have triggered regional arms races—or prevented invasion?

Command-and-control risk: Could Kyiv have safely maintained, modernised and politically controlled 1 800 warheads?

International law & norms: Does keeping inherited arsenals undermine global non-proliferation, or are assurances hollow without force?

Cast your verdict
Comment “MISTAKE” if Ukraine should have kept the nukes, or “WISE MOVE” if disarmament was the right call—and explain why. Insightful takes get featured next episode.

About this series
Each day we feed identical peer-reviewed sources to two large-language models and let them argue—zero human bias, zero edits, pure logic.

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