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Still Taboo? Citizens’ Attitudes toward the Use of Nuclear Weapons

, 2020
How robust is the “nuclear taboo”—the belief that it is wrong to use nuclear weapons—and can it be strengthened? In a series of experimental surveys, we investigate two mechanisms theorized to support the nuclear nonuse norm.
L. Koch, M. Wells
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Nuclear weapons and the law*

Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 1999
The history of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is summarized, with a discussion of some of its earlier Advisory Opinions. The Advisory Opinion on the legality of nuclear arms is considered in the light of the principles of international humanitarian law and a review of nuclear weapons effects.
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A World Free of Nuclear Weapons

Transforming Terror, 2019
nuclear weapons today present tremendous dangers, but also an historic opportunity. U.S. leadership will be required to take the world to the next stage—to a solid consensus for reversing reliance on nuclear weapons globally as a vital contribution to ...
George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, H. Kissinger, Sam Nunn   +3 more
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Nuclear weapons

2009
Abstract This chapter analyses how the law of armed conflict applies to the possession and use of nuclear weapons, noting that no law of armed conflict treaty has been adopted which either prohibits or restricts the development, stockpiling, transfer, possession, or use of such weapons, or threats to use nuclear weapons.
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Einstein and the Politics of Nuclear Weapons

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1979
(1979). Einstein and the politics of nuclear weapons. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 5-16.
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

, 2019
This Commentary offers detailed background and analysis of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which was adopted at the UN Headquarters in New York in July 2017.
Stuart Casey-Maslen
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Negotiating the UN treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons and the role of ICAN

The 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty, 2018
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is historic not only in its substance but in the process of its development. It was led by states free from nuclear weapons; based on humanitarian evidence and imperatives; involved civil society ...
Tilman A. Ruff
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Nuclear Weapons

1997
Publisher Summary The testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere has been responsible for the largest quantities of man-made radionuclides released into the environment. The radioactive debris from nuclear explosions divides into three fractions, depending on the height of burst and explosive yield.
Merril Eisenbud, Thomas Gesell
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Impacts of the nuclear ban: how outlawing nuclear weapons is changing the world

The 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty, 2018
The process to negotiate and adopt the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has already had significant impacts on nuclear weapon law, politics, economics, and social and academic discourse.
R. Acheson
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How durable is the nuclear weapons taboo?

The Journal of Strategic Studies, 2018
The nuclear weapons taboo is considered one of the strongest norms in international politics. A prohibition against using nuclear weapons has seemingly shaped state behavior for nearly seven decades and, according to some observers, made nuclear use ...
Rebecca Davis Gibbons, Keir A. Lieber
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