Commentary

Virtual conference held November 8, 2023. This conference addressed the continuing and heightened dangers of nuclear war accentuated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and threats to use nuclear weapons.

On April 25, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin provided a revealing and disturbing glimpse into a darker element of US policy when he stated: "We want to see Russia weakened to the degree it cannot do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine."

With the UN Security Council paralyzed by the Russian veto, in two resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly a large majority of UN member states have strongly condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine as aggression in violation of the UN Charter. The International Court of Justice, the UN judicial branch, has also weighed in.

In this 21 February 2022 episode of Law and Disorder Radio, hosts Michael Steven Smith and Marjorie Cohn interview LCNP Senior Analyst John Burroughs about LCNP’s work and current nuclear weapons issues.

If the Ukraine crisis erupts into war – even intensified limited war in Eastern Ukraine with overt Russian intervention – the consequences will be severe and far-reaching.

Commentary and Analysis regarding UN Human Rights Committee General Comment no. 36; the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons; Human Rights, Democracy, and Nuclear Weapons.

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will become binding law for participating states on January 22, 2021. Entry into force was triggered on October 24, the date marking the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, when Honduras become the 50th state to ratify the TPNW, reaching the threshold set by the treaty.

The Trump Administration recently asked the military to assess how quickly nuclear weapons could be retrieved from storage and attached to delivery vehicles if New START is allowed to expire in February.

Today, three-dozen nuclear watchdog organizations sent an urgent message to Congress declaring resumption of nuclear weapons testing by the United States “absolutely unacceptable” and “dangerously destabilizing.”

On October 24, 2018, the UN Human Rights Committee adopted General Comment 36 on the Right to Life, a right codified in Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

On 30 October 2018, the United Nations Human Rights Committee adopted a General Comment on the right to life set out in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

December 10, 2018, Bahá’í UN Office, New York City. Sponsored by Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy and the Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice, CUNY School of Law.