The Legal Framework for Non-Use and Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

Briefing Paper for Greenpeace International, February 2006, written by John Burroughs, Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy. Including: the obligation to conclude negotiations for nuclear disarmament; the illegality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons; the role of regional nuclear weapons free zones; and 'nuclear sharing' ie the deployment of US weapons in several european countries.

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