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Mariana Budjeryn

Mariana Budjeryn is a senior research associate with the Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. She is the author of “Inheriting the Bomb: The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine” (Johns Hopkins Press, 2023), for which she won the 2024 William E. Colby Military Writers’ Award.


Articles by Mariana Budjeryn

Biden allowing Ukraine to strike into Russia is much ado for little consequence

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

“NATO or Nukes”: Why Ukraine’s nuclear revival refuses to die

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Weapons

Why Russia is more likely to go nuclear in Ukraine if it’s winning

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion
Putin at 20-foot long table with Macron

Distressing a system in distress: Global nuclear order and Russia’s war against Ukraine

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Weapons

If Ukraine chooses neutrality, what could that look like?

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Risk, Opinion
(Rusted) Missile silo of a SS-24 missile, Strategic Missile Forces Museum in Ukraine. Credit: Michael. CC BY 3.0. Accessed via Wikipedia.

Ukraine building a nuclear bomb? Dangerous nonsense.

By Mariana Budjeryn, Matthew Bunn | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A pragmatic turn in Geneva

By Mariana Budjeryn | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion
Abandoned Chernobyl village. Credit: Clay Gilliland via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0

Chernobyl: A nuclear accident that changed the course of history. Then came Fukushima.

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk
Ukrainian troops

Impeachment backstory: The nuclear dimension of US security assistance to Ukraine

By Mariana Budjeryn | Analysis, Nuclear Risk