Article

The laws of armed conflict and the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons

Roger S. Clark

• Criminal law forum, Vol. 7, no. 2, 1996, p. 265-298

English

This article analyzes the debate on the legality of the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons surrounding the International Court of Justice advisory opinion of July 8, 1996 in response to questions asked by the Assembly of the World Health Organization and the United Nations General Assembly. This issue of Criminal Law Forum also reproduces written observations by Solomon Islands and the United States presenting the two sides of the antinuclear and the pronuclear argument.