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Article: World Court on nuclear weapons
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- The Press
- Article date:
- July 13, 1996
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The World Court's steps towards judging whether nuclear weapons
are illegal ranged over a variety of issues. STUART McMILLAN cites
some of the court's opinions.
The baldness of the main finding in the advisory opinion of the
International Court of Justice - that the threat or use of nuclear
weapons would generally be contrary to the rules of international
law, and that the court could not conclude definitively whether the
threat or use of nuclear weapons would be lawful or unlawful in an
extreme circumstance of self-defence -- does nothing to convey the
complexity of the full advisory opinion, which runs to 35 pages of
small type.
The judges had to examine existing international law on war, ...