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Article: World Court says mostly no to nuclear weapons. (includes related information)

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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September 1, 1996
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Ten of 14 judges condemned the use of nuclear weapons.

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In an opinion that was simultaneously forthright and ambiguous, the International Court of Justice--usually called the World Court--said in The Hague July 8 that "the threat or use of nuclear weapons" was "generally" unlawful.

But the court also declared that it could not "definitively" conclude whether the threat or use of such weapons would be lawful or unlawful "in an extreme circumstance of self-defence, in which the very survival of a State would be at stake."

The court's principal findings were embodied in a 37-page advisory opinion to the U.N. ...

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