Herhiyeva V. US Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy: Cases of Iran and North Korea

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international situation changed and new challenges arose, to which the United States began to respond actively. In the early 1990s, the United States faced the risk of the nuclear non-proliferation regime collapsing due to Ukraine's nuclear disarmament problem. Further successful resolution of the denuclearization of Ukraine and, as a result, the indefinite extension of the NPT at the 1995 NPT Review Conference, finally consolidated the NPT regime, which was one of the great successes of the United States' non-proliferation policy. Along with the strengthening of nonproliferation policy, the so-called US counter-proliferation policy is beginning to take shape, ie a set of military and other forceful methods to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons.