The United States is the only nation to have used nuclear weapons in warfare and claims-not only through its State Department, but through a Congressional vote as late as 1999-that the use of nuclear weapons is lawful. Can such a claim, with its undeniable assurance of the greatest degree of destruction of life and property this planet will ever have seen, be sustained? The author investigates this question as a prelude to a more extensive inquiry into the options of legal scholars on the legal status of nuclear weapons and international law.
Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
- ISBN10 0941320537
- ISBN13 9780941320535
- Publish Date 1 April 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 May 2017
- Publish Country NL
- Publisher Brill
- Imprint Transnational Publishers Inc.,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 350
- Language English
- URL http://brill.com/product_id28054