This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

This is CBS I on the World. I'm John Batchelor.

Henry Sikolsky, the Executive Director of Nonproliferation Policy Education Center,

is here to comment on nuclear matters and

nuclear in space as well. The headline from Moscow, Putin says Russia won't let Ukraine

obtain nuclear weapons. This within these last hours. Russian President of Vladimir Putin

would not let Ukraine get nuclear weapons,

Reuters underlines, after Ukraine's leader said that since Keef had given up its Soviet-era

nuclear arms, it must join NATO. Henry, this is a confusion of threats and I'd say at the same time provocation by Mr. Zelensky.

Sort this out for me, Henry.

Nuclear weapons were in Ukraine.

They gave them up.

Now there is a suggestion they'll get them back.

How would they do that?

Good evening to you.

Good evening. Clearly, Ukraine is... there is a suggestion they'll get them back how would they do that good evening to you good evening uh clearly uh ukraine is in a terrible position right now it militarily isn't

where it wants to be uh it's looking at a trump administration that seems all too eager to

bring this war to an end even if if it means Putin gets his land and Ukraine

is sitting as a duck for another invasion. God knows, five, ten years later, who knows?

It's not great. And when you're in a desperate situation, you start floating threats and possibilities that might get the bigger country in the United States to rethink.

I mean, after all, Biden is being accused now of having pulled his punch and not giving weapons and weapons launch authority to the Ukrainians for long-range

weaponry out of a fear that, oh, it might provoke the Russians to use nuclear weapons.

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