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Netta Goussac,
Rain Liivoja
| Aug 25, 2025 | AI, AoW Posts, Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict CyCon 2025 Series, Blog, Weapons Law
CyCon 2025 Series – Legal Reviews of Military Artificial Intelligence Capabilities Editors’ note: This post is part of a series that features presentations at this year’s 17th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon) in Tallinn, Estonia. Its subject will be...
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William H. Boothby,
Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
| Aug 15, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Weapons Law
Is Nuclear Weapons Law Stopping the Nukes? Editors’ Note: This post draws upon the book, The Law on Nuclear Weapons: An International Commentary edited by the authors and published in 2025 by Edward Elgar. It is always difficult to know for sure why political leaders...
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James Kraska
| Jul 28, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, State Responsibility, Weapons Law
Did China Just Violate the Biological Warfare Convention? In early June, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested two nationals of the People’s Republic of China for conspiracy to smuggle a fungus called Fusarium graminearum into the United States,...
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Inna Zavorotko,
Oleksii Plotnikov
| Jul 15, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Weapons Law
What Is Left After Leaving Ottawa? With 165 member States (at the time of writing), the Ottawa Convention is arguably the most widely recognized international treaty on conventional weapons. It was long regarded as a triumph of civil society, with progress reported on...
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Davit Khachatryan
| Jun 6, 2025 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Weapons Law
Diverging Standards in the Legal Review of LAWS In May 2025, Anduril Industries publicly unveiled Fury (YFQ-44A), a next-generation autonomous aircraft currently under evaluation by the U.S. Air Force as part of its Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program. Fury...
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Ronald Alcala
| May 30, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Weapons Law
Ukraine Symposium – Captured Enemy Weapons The Russian military has fielded a new weapon in its conflict with Ukraine. In recent weeks, at least one frontline Russian unit was observed operating an American-made Bradley M2A2 infantry fighting vehicle, and Russia is...
