Chapter

Use of nuclear weapons and protection of the environment during international armed conflict

Erik V. Koppe

Nuclear weapons under international law

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014

p. 247-268

English

This chapter seeks to clarify the scope of the relevant rules of the law of armed conflict and to assess, in abstracto, the legality of the use of nuclear weapons under these rules. It first describes relevant rules of treaty law, essentially Additional Protocol I of 1977. It then discusses protection of the environment during armed conflict under customary international law.

• Nuclear weapons under international law / ed. by Gro Nystuen, Stuart Casey-Maslen and Annie Golden Bersagel