On nuclear weapons : essays by Richard Falk on denuclearization, demilitarization, and disarmament /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Falk, Richard A., author.
Uniform title:	Works. Selections
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	1 online resource (xxix, 372 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Nuclear weapons (International law) Nuclear disarmament. Nuclear arms control. Nuclear nonproliferation. Nuclear arms control. Nuclear disarmament. Nuclear nonproliferation. Nuclear weapons (International law) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12576675

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Other authors / contributors:	Andersson, Stefan, editor. Dahlgren, Curt, editor.
ISBN:	9781108579575 1108579574 9781108675796 1108675794 9781108493130 1108493130 9781108717298
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 06, 2019).
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Original 1108493130 9781108493130

Table of Contents:

The Shimoda case : a legal appraisal of the atomic attacks upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Nuclear policy and world order : why denuclearization
Toward a legal regime for nuclear weapons
Nuclear weapons, international law, and the world court : a historic encounter
The nuclear weapons advisory opinion and the new jurisprudence of global civil society
Inhibiting reliance on biological weaponry : the role and relevance of international law
Nuclear weapons and the end of democracy
Nuclear weapons and the renewal of democracy
Neutrality, international law, and the nuclear arms race
Nuclearism and national interest : the situation of a non-nuclear ally
A radical world order challenge : addressing global climate change and the threat of nuclear weapons
Arms control, foreign policy, and global reform
The illegitimacy of the non-proliferation regime
No first use of nuclear weapons : pros and cons
Environmental warfare and ecocide facts, appraisal, and proposals
The paucity of the millennial moment : the case of nuclearism
The nuclear challenge after 70 years
The spirit of Thoreau in the age of Trident.

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