On nuclear weapons : essays by Richard Falk on denuclearization, demilitarization, and disarmament
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On nuclear weapons : essays by Richard Falk on denuclearization, demilitarization, and disarmament
Cambridge University Press, 2019
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On nuclear weapons : denuclearization, demilitarization and disarmament : selected writings of Richard Falk
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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We are at a time when international law and the law of war are particularly important. The testing of nuclear weapons that is being used in the rhetoric surrounding threats of war is creating new fears and heightening current tensions. Richard Falk has for decades been an outspoken authority calling for nuclear disarmament and the enforcement of non-proliferation treaties. In this collection of essays, Falk examines the global threats to all humanity posed by nuclear weapons. He is not satisfied with accepting arms control measures as a managerial stopgap to these threats and seeks no less than to move the world back from the nuclear precipice and towards denuclearization. Falk's essays reflect the wisdom and innovative thinking he has brought to his long career as a scholar and activist, as he reminds nuclear weapons states of their obligation under international law and moral imperative to seek nuclear disarmament.
Table of Contents
- Part I. International Law and World Order: 1. The Shimoda case: a legal appraisal of the atomic attacks upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 2. Nuclear policy and world order: why denuclearization
- 3. Toward a legal regime for nuclear weapons
- 4. Nuclear weapons, international law and the world court: a historic encounter
- 5. The nuclear weapons advisory opinion and the new jurisprudence of global civil society
- 6. Inhibiting reliance on biological weaponry: the role and relevance of international law
- Part II. Impacts of Democracy, Neutrality and National Interest: 7. Nuclear weapons and the end of democracy
- 8. Nuclear weapons and the renewal of democracy
- 9. Neutrality, international law and the nuclear arms race
- 10. Nuclearism and national interest - the situation of a non-nuclear ally
- 11. A radical world order challenge: addressing global climate change and the threat of nuclear weapons
- Part III. Nuclear Policy Initiatives: 12. Arms control, foreign policy, and global reform
- 13. The illegitimacy of the non-proliferation regime
- 14. No first use of nuclear weapons: pros and cons
- 15. Environmental warfare and ecocide facts, appraisal, and proposals
- Part IV. Remembering the Past, Encountering the Future: 16. The paucity of the millennial moment: the case of nuclearism
- 17. The nuclear challenge after seventy years
- 18. The spirit of Thoreau in the age of Trident.
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