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Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons: Preliminary remarks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Yves Sandoz*
Affiliation:
Director for International Law and Policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Extract

There are some questions which one would prefer not to raise. The legality of the use of nuclear weapons in war is surely a case in point.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1997

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References

1 Reproduced in IRRC, No. 313, 0708 1996, pp. 501502.Google Scholar

2 See Sandoz, Y., Swinarski, C., Zimmermann, B. (eds), Commentary on the Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977 to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, ICRC/Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Geneva, 1987, para. 1849, p. 592.Google Scholar