Nuclear Weapons And The Law
Peace Rights are involed with different inquiries and reports looking at different aspects of the law regarding nuclear weapons.Trident
08 November 2004  | Report of the Inquiry into the Legality of Nuclear Weapons (PDF Document) Inquiry into the legality of Trident, its possible replacement and the Mutual Defence Agreement between the UK and the USA. The inquiry was comissioned by PeaceRights, to provide a forum for transparent, expertly reasoned and authoritative analysis of these matters.
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Non Proliferation Treaty
01 July 2004 | Is the UK in breach of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by its renewal of the Mutual Defence Agreement (MDA) with the USA ? Available formats: HTML Page - Word Document |
Other
01 May 2002 | This briefing paper highlights the main arguments on the illegality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons in the light of international humanitarian law examined also with regards to the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion of July 8th 1996 which is, however, mistakenly relied on as the main argument of the illegality of nuclear weapons. |
01 August 2001 | Judicial Responses To The Unlawfulness Of Nuclear Weapons: Lessons And (Emerging) Strategies From The UK (Word Document) Paper to “Nuclear Weapons and the Law: Agenda and Actors” Waseda International Conference of the Hague International Peace Conferences, Waseda University, Tokyo, 31 July – 2 August 2001 By Phil Shiner, Solicitor, Public Interest Lawyers and Peacerights, UK |