The Zyklon B Case Hamburg, March, 1946

Trial of Bruno Tesch and Two Others Before British Military Court [Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, Vol. 1, p.93 (London, 1947).] Outline of the Proceedings I. The Court The Court consisted of Brigadier R. B. L. Persse, as…

The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence

Francis A. Boyle, Professor of International Law, Law Building, Illinois 61820. ©COPYRIGHT 1996 BY FRANCIS A. BOYLE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Introduction In my book The Future of International Law and American Foreign Policy (Transnational Publishers Inc: 1989), I traced the…

Nuclear Weapons and the Law Lord Murray, October 1998

Introduction Most people are nowadays aware of the apocalyptic power of nuclear devices and that, at the height of the Cold War, weapons deployed had multiplied in power from the 15 kilotonnes of Hiroshima towards megatonnes. Fortunately this progression has…

Summary of Nuclear Weapon Accidents

Angie Zelter, August 1999   I have been aware of the possibilities of nuclear war by accident and of nuclear contamination by accident for many years. About ten years ago I read a Bradford Research Paper entitled Nuclear Weapons Accidents…