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Anyone
who has a nuclear weapon as an instrument of foreign
policy is ready to break all three categories of law:
those of man, god, and nature. The formation of a committee
such as yours was a categorical imperative.
- Kurt Vonnegut, letter to LCNP President
Peter Weiss, September 1997
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Letter to President Obama
urging him to speak at the September 26, 2013 UN High Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament
Selected Student Papers, Course on International Law & Nuclear Weapons
Fall 2012, Fordham University School of Law
U.N. Accused of Playing Down Nuke Disarmament Conference, Thalif Deen, IPS, May 6, 2013
Beyond International Humanitarian Law, Event at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, April 22, 2013, with John Burroughs, Madeleine Rees, and Paul Meyer
John Burroughs (text as prepared)
Madeleine Rees (text as delivered)
Paul Meyer
(text as prepared)
Creating the Conditions and Building the Framework for a Nuclear Weapons-Free World, Summary Report and Presentations, Berlin Framework Forum sponsored by Middle Powers Initiative and PNND, February 21-22, 2013
Briefing Paper, John Burroughs, LCNP Executive Director
Roundtable, German Mission to the United Nations, New York, October 10, 2012
Remarks of Angela Kane, UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs
Remarks of John Burroughs, LCNP Executive Director
Unspeakable suffering: the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons, Reaching Critical Will, February 2013
International Humanitarian Law, John Burroughs
A Legal Path to a Nuclear Weapons Free World, Peter Weiss, Austrian Review of International and European Law, 2010
Boycotts that Bomb (op-ed), Paul Meyer, Embassy, May 15, 2013
Nuclear Weapons, International Law, and the Future of the Planet, Remarks of John Burroughs at event sponsored by the NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace & Security, May 7, 2013
Student Legal Advocacy & Nuclear Disarmament: Reflections of One Law Student’s Journey, Kevin Krauss, ILSA Quarterly, February 2013
Moving Beyond Deterrence to a Nuclear Weapons Free World, Nuclear Abolition Forum, No. 2, 2013
Order form
IALANA News, April 2013
Joint Statement on the Humanitarian Dimension of Nuclear Disarmament, Ambassador Benno Laggner, Switzerland, UN General Assembly First Committee, October 22, 2012
The Humanitarian Dimension of Nuclear Disarmament, John Burroughs, First Committee Monitor, Reaching Critical Will, October 29, 2012, pp. 5-6
Program
on International Humanitarian Law and Nuclear Weapons,
American Bar Association, April 20, 2012, with Amb. Libran Cabactulan,
Prof. Gary Solis, and LCNP’s Charles J. Moxley, Jr. Examines
the question: how does and how should international law governing
the conduct of warfare apply to nuclear weapons?
Working
towards the elimination of nuclear weapons, Resolution
of International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, November
26, 2011
Launch
of Nuclear Abolition Forum: Dialogue on the Process to Achieve
and Sustain a Nuclear Weapons Free World, New York,
October 21, 2011. Inaugural issue of journal: International
Humanitarian Law and Nuclear Weapons, with articles by John
Burroughs, Peter Weiss, Nicholas Grief, Randy Rydell, et al. |
How Reliance on Nuclear Weapons Erodes and Distorts International Law and Global Order, John Burroughs, Cadmus Journal, November 2012
Plus articles by LCNP board member James Ranney and others
Mapping
the Issues: Interactive Maps on Nuclear Disarmament, Genocide,
Space Security, and Arctic Security, The
Simons Foundation, launched July 2012. Content for Nuclear
Disarmament Map provided by LCNP.
Assuring
destruction forever: nuclear weapon modernization around the
world,
Reaching Critical Will, March 2012, with articles by LCNP’s
Merav Datan on Israel
and John Burroughs on International
Law
Fordham International
Law Journal
Nuclear
Weapons and Compliance with International Humanitarian
Law and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,
Charles J. Moxley, Jr., John Burroughs and Jonathan Granoff,
Fordham International Law Journal (Vol. 34, 2011)
Obama's
Nuclear Posture Review, Charles J. Moxley, Jr., Fordham
International Law Journal (Vol. 34, 2011)
Taking
the Law Seriously: The Imperative Need for a Nuclear Weapons
Convention, Peter Weiss, Fordham International Law
Journal (Vol. 34, 2011) |
Vancouver Declaration
Vancouver
Declaration: Law's Imperative for the Urgent Achievement
of a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World, February 11, 2011
[In
Russian]
Signatories to the Vancouver Declaration, February 2013
Media
Release, March 23, 2011
Nuclear
Energy and Weapons: Uncontrollable in Time and Space,
Alyn Ware, HuffPost Green, March 23, 2011
"Absolute
Prohibition of an Absolute Evil," Ernie Regehr,
disarmingconflict.ca,
March 30, 2011
Law’s
Imperative, John Burroughs, Reaching Critical Will
Blog, April 15, 2011
Public
Momentum Builds Against Nukes, Haider Rizvi, IPS,
March 25, 2011 |
International
Law, Disarmament, Women and Human Rights, Outcome of
Expert Meeting, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom,
December 2011, Geneva
Peace,
Law and Nuclear Weapons (As Seen by Two Jews and an Arab),
Peter Weiss, Palestine-Israel Journal, March 2010
Good
Faith, International Law, and Elimination of Nuclear
Weapons, May 1, 2008 Conference, Geneva
Judge
Mohammed Bedjaoui, Keynote Address, May 1, 2008,
Geneva
Peter
Weiss, Remarks on Judge Bedjaoui’s Keynote Address
Professor
Karima Bennoune, The Intersection of Nuclear
Weapons and International Human Rights Law
Professor
Marcelo Kohen, Remarks
Good
Faith: A Fundamental Principle of International
Law, John Burroughs, News
in Review, Final Edition, No. 9, 28 April –
9 May 2008 |
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Updated
Model Convention Prohibiting and Eliminating Nuclear Weapons,
2007
Background and Resources
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