From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 14 November 2024
- Subject(s):
- Supremacy — Nuclear energy — War
General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani
1. A nuclear weapon (often referred to as an atomic bomb) exists in the arsenal of states as a means of deterrence to prevent war. As weapons of mass destruction, ‘nuclear weapons are explosive devices whose energy results from the fusion or fission of the atom [and] have the potential to destroy all civilization and the entire ecosystem of the planet’ (see Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons (1996) 226 para. 35; see also Annex II of Protocol No. III on the Control of Armaments (23 October 1954); see also Nuclear Weapons...
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