Bangladesh, Feb. 16 -- Brazil and Russia have just signed a declaration reaffirming their commitment to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Such declaration emerged from renewed bilateral talks covering topics such as the nuclear fuel cycle, regulatory cooperation – plus modernizing the legal framework governing nuclear collaboration between the two countries. This matters because those discussions were embedded in a broader defense of multilateralism and a sharp critique of “unilateral coercive measures,” a wording that hardly conceals its target.

Moscow has expressed willingness to share nuclear technologies with Brazil across several domains, including electricity generation, fuel fabrication, and medical application...