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Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: The Ban and Limits Thereof [PDF]

China-USA Business Review, 2017
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is a fact. Being a treaty, it has consequences on the intersection of diverse fields, including but not limited to nuclear physics, nuclear defense industry, peace or disarmament studies, international law and so on.
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International Law and the Problem of Change: A Tale of Two Conventions [PDF]

, 2018
Extensive efforts have been made in the modern period to suppress the possession and use of both chemical and nuclear weapons. However, progress towards the abolition of these two types of weapons presents a rather sharp contrast, as this case study ...
Crawford, James
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Internationalism as Encounter: Grassroots Diplomacy on the San Francisco‐to‐Moscow March, 1960–61

History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 108-126, January 2026.
Abstract This article discusses the ‘Global March for Peace’ of 1960–61 – an initiative that took a group of activists from San Francisco to Moscow, crossing countries on both sides of the Cold War divide. While the general development of this march is well known, this article offers a fresh perspective in several ways.
SOPHIE SCOTT‐BROWN
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Foreword

The Thinker
Africa’s role in nuclear debates and in opposing nuclear weapons is at once consequential and overlooked. Since the 1996 Treaty of Pelindaba, the African continent has been a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (NWFZ), providing a powerful example of opposition ...
Anna-Mart van Wyk, Luc-André Brunet, Eirini Karamouzi   +2 more
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Autonomous weapon systems and international humanitarian law: a reply to the critics [PDF]

, 2013
In November 2012, Human Rights Watch, in collaboration with the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, released Losing Humanity: The Case against Killer Robots.[2] Human Rights Watch is among the most sophisticated of human rights ...
Schmitt, Michael
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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1554, Issue 1, Page 66-86, December 2025.
This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Scott Atran
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Nuclear Weapons and Adversarial Politics: Bursting the Abolitionist “Consensus”

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2021
How will the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) shape the broader pursuit of nuclear abolition? TPNW critics have argued that the new agreement is likely to fuel divisions between nuclear and non-nuclear-weapon sates, undermining ...
Kjølv Egeland
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False Twins: Intergenerational Injustice in Nuclear Deterrence and Climate Inaction

Global Policy, Volume 16, Issue 5, Page 945-954, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Nuclear deterrence and climate inaction wrong future generations by imposing potential existential harm through climate‐related disasters and nuclear winter. While increasingly explored in tandem, key differences in their intergenerational justice dimensions are overlooked. First, the timelines for imposing harm differ.
Franziska Stärk
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The ICRC and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement: Working Towards a Nuclear-Free World since 1945

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2018
This article examines why and how the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement as a whole have been contributing to the global efforts towards a world free of nuclear weapons since the ...
Linh Schroeder
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Contested Nuclear Sharing in Belgium: Domestic Political Dynamic for the Nuclear Weapons Ban

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
The successful conclusion of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has challenged the global nuclear order, but was dependent on bypassing the nuclear weapon states (NWS) and their allies.
Hartwig Hummel
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