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Testing the effectiveness of the International Court of Justice: The nuclear weapons case
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American Society of International Law. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting
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January 1, 1997
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The panel was convened at 8 p.m., Wednesday, April 9, by its Chair, John B. Rhinelander, who introduced the panelists: Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, World Bank; Peter Weiss, Center for Constitutional Rights; Ronald D. Neubauer, U.S. Department of Defense; Michael J. Matheson, U.S. Department of
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REMARKS BY JOHN B. RHINELANDER*
The subject of this panel tonight is the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Nuclear Weapons case.1 Preliminarily, I have six points to make on the nuclear age.
First, the nuclear weapons age is now more than fifty-one years old. I date it from July 1945, when the first atomic device was exploded near Alamogordo, NM. My second point is that while ...