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Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons: Preliminary remarks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Yves Sandoz
Yves Sandoz*
Affiliation:
Director for International Law and Policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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Extract

There are some questions which one would prefer not to raise. The legality of the use of nuclear weapons in war is surely a case in point.

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 37 , Special Issue 316: The Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of nuclear weapons and international humanitarian law , February 1997 , pp. 6 - 8
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1997

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References

1 Reproduced in IRRC, No. 313, 07–08 1996, pp. 501–502.Google Scholar

2 See Sandoz, Y., Swinarski, C., Zimmermann, B. (eds), Commentary on the Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977 to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, ICRC/Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Geneva, 1987, para. 1849, p. 592.Google Scholar