Nuclear Proliferation and the Legality of Nuclear Weapons

by Evan, William M.; Nanda, Ved P.

• ISBN13: 9780761800880
• ISBN10: 0761800883
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-11-08
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

This work presents a set of penetrating essays by distinguished legal and international security scholars who study the strengths and weaknesses of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the widespread assumption of the legality of nuclear weapons. Evan and Nanda's book commemorates the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations and the 25th year review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. In a critical analysis, these essays investigate the prevalent assumption held by political leaders concerning the legality of nuclear weapons. This book supports the World Court Project, which was founded in the interest of applying international law to protect humanity from the threat posed by nuclear weapons. In such subject matter, no other work compares to Nuclear Proliferation and the Legality of Nuclear Weapons. Clearly, Evan and Nanda have edited a work that will be of utmost interest to students enrolled in courses on international law, international relations and international security; specialists in international law, or national security; diplomats, and members of missions to the United Nations.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
PART I - COUNTERING THE DANGERS OF NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION
Introduction	3	(10)
William M. Evan
Repentant Nuclear Proliferants	13	(16)
Leonard S. Spector
Post-Soviet Nuclear Proliferation Risks	29	(18)
Andrei Zagorski
Proliferation in South Asia	47	(22)
Nazir Kamal
Proliferation in the Middle East and the North Asian Connection	69	(30)
Martin Navias
The Nuclear Arming of Japan	99	(16)
Atsushi Tsuchida
Issues Facing the 1995 NPT Extension Conference	115	(12)
Jozef Goldblat
The 1995 NPT Extension Conference: A Rejoinder	127	(6)
Mohamed I. Shaker
Nuclear Safeguards and Non-Proliferation in a Changing World Order	133	(18)
Lawrence Scheinman
Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium	151	(16)
Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Academy of Sciences
Preventing Proliferation by Nuclear Weapons Abolition: Supporting a Limited Extension of the NPT	167	(16)
David Krieger
Bas Bryne
Toward a Nuclear Weapon-Free World: Societal Verification	183	(32)
Joseph Rotblat
PART II - ON THE LEGALITY OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Introduction	201	(14)
Ved P. Nanda
The Law, Nuclear Weapons, and the Real World	215	(32)
Christopher Weeramantry
Nuclear Weapons, the Ecology, and International Law	247	(42)
Ved P. Nanda
Jeffrey C. Lowe
Illegality of the Use and Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons	289	(10)
Nicholas Grief
The Criminality of Nuclear Weapons	299	(16)
Francis A. Boyle
A Survey of International Lawyers on the Legality of Nuclear Weapons	315	(16)
William M. Evan
Lalit K. Aggarwal
In Support of the Application of the World Health Organization for an Advisory Opinion by the International Court of Justice	331	(40)
Peter Weiss
Burns Weston
Richard A. Falk
Saul H. Mendlovitz
Draft Treaty on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons	371	(28)
Japan Federation of Bar Associations
Conclusion	399
Ved P. Nanda
William M. Evan
Appendix I Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968 United Nations Treaty Series, Volume 729, at 161	383	(6)
Appendix II The 1992 United Nations General Assembly Resolution on Nuclear Weapons (47/53 C) Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons	389	(4)
Appendix III General and Complete Disarmament Indonesia: Draft Resolution	393	(4)
Appendix IV 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons	397	(10)
Author Index	407	(6)
Subject Index	413