Comments on: International humanitarian law and nuclear weapons: Irreconcilable differences via The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2012/01/31/international-humanitarian-law-and-nuclear-weapons-irreconcilable-differences-via-the-bulletin-of-atomic-scientists-2/ Fri, 24 May 2013 16:41:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: norma field http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2012/01/31/international-humanitarian-law-and-nuclear-weapons-irreconcilable-differences-via-the-bulletin-of-atomic-scientists-2/comment-page-1/#comment-123765 norma field Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:12:20 +0000 http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/?p=12677#comment-123765 “When the rules of war are applied to nuclear weapons, it becomes clear that these weapons cannot comply with international law. The effects of nuclear weapons are inherently uncontrollable and do not meet international criteria for discrimination between military and civilian targets, for proportionality, and for necessity.”

What about nuclear disasters in terms of controllability?

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