Rabinder Singh QC Professor Christine Chinkin Matrix Chambers, July 26, 2004 Introduction and Summary of Advice 1. We are asked to advise BASIC (the British American Security Information Council), the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy and Peacerights. The question on…
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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…
General Lee Butler Addresses The Canadian Network Against Nuclear Weapons
General Lee Butler (Retired), 3/11/98 Let me begin by simply expressing my appreciation to those of you in the room who have labored in this vineyard for so many years, most I suspect, simply understanding intuitively what took years for…
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…