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  • G - Weapons Law as It Applies to Nuclear Weapons

  • William H. Boothby, Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
  • Book:
    Nuclear Weapons Law
    Published online:
    30 November 2021
    Print publication:
    20 January 2022, pp 152-164
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    Section G provides Rules and Commentaries on the legal requirements that means of nuclear warfare must be in compliance with. They include basic principles, specifically the prohibition of unnecessary suffering and superfluous injury, and the requirements emanating from the principle of distinction. The Section also addresses the prohibition of nuclear weapons that are expected to cause widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment and of environmental modification techniques having similar effects. Special attention is given to the obligations under the TPNW and to the admissibility or prohibition of belligerent reprisals.