Trident Ploughshares was asked by the Scottish Government to prepare a summary of the UK’s position on the legality of Trident. We have done this as fairly as possible by taking quotes direct from the Written Statement to the International…
Trident and Nuclear Law by Rupert Ticehurst
1. Introduction: On 15 December 1994, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted resolution 49/75K agreeing to submit an advisory opinion to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legal status of nuclear weapons. The request submitted to the…
Disarming Trident: Legality, Morality & Protest in the UK
Angie Zelter [Disarmament Diplomacy, September 1998, pp.11-13.] Introduction In early July, the British Labour Government published a Strategic Defence Review (SDR), the most comprehensive review of the UK’s defence forces and requirements since the end of the Cold War. Two…
Putting Nuclear Weapons on Trial
Angie Zelter [Disarmament Diplomacy, December 1999, pp.3-10.] “One wonders whether in the light of common sense, it can be doubted that to exterminate vast numbers of the enemy population, to poison their atmosphere, to induce in them cancers, keloids and…
Idealism in Action: International Law and Nuclear Weapons in Greenock Sheriff Court
Edinburgh Law Review (2000) Vol 4 Analysis E L R Vol 4 pp 74-86 Stephen C Neff Senior Lecturer in Law University of Edinburgh Britain’s Trident nuclear missile programme has long been politically controversial. In 1999, the controversy entered the…
Nuclear Weapons, Uncertainty And The Law World Court Project UK
The Public Conscience in Action Secretary: George Farebrother, 67, Summerheath Rd, Hailsham, Sussex, UK BN27 3DR Phone & Fax +44 (0)1323 844 269 , E Mail: geowcpuk@gn.apc.org, Web http://www.gn.apc.org/wcp The World Court Project is an international citizens’ network which is…
Mutual Defence Agreement [MDA] and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty [NPT] Joint Advice [full tex
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…
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…