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Nuclear weapons and scientific responsibility

Title: Nuclear weapons and scientific responsibility / C.G. Weeramantry.
Author: Weeramantry, C. G.
Publication: Wolfeboro, NH : Longwood Academic, c1987.

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Description

1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps; 23 cm.

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Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographies.

Contents

The Beginnings -- The Cold War -- The Distinctiveness of Nuclear Weapons -- The Arsenals -- The Origins and Current Status of the International Law of War -- Is the Use of Nuclear Weapons Illegal? -- Is the Manufacture of Nuclear Weapons Illegal? -- The Concept of Personal Responsibility in International Law -- The Responsibility of the Scientist -- Consequences of the Thesis advanced in this Book -- The Nuclear Winter according to Lord Byon, 1816 -- The Fallacy of Star Wars -- Einstein's Letter to Roosevelt, 1939 -- Niels Bohr's Memorandum to Roosevelt, 1944 -- Extract from 'Franck Report' to the Secretary of War, 1945 -- The Russell-Einstein Manifesto, 1955 -- Declaration of the Canadian Pugwash Group, 1982 -- For the Species and the Planet: A Statement in Support of the Five Continent Peace -- Initiative, 1985 -- Resolution of Human Rights Committee on Illegality of Nuclear War -- Principles Formulated by the International Law Commission -- Proposed U.N. Declaration of Scientific Responsibility in Relation to Nuclear -- Weaponry -- Three Judicial Opinions -- Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.

ISBN

0893415421
9780893415426

LCCN

87002804

OCLC

ocm15591258
15591258
SCSB-1185888

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Princeton University Library