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…
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…