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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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Louisa Handel-Mazzetti
| May 2, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Space Law, Use of Force
Deterrence Doesn’t Fly in Space: Nuclear Weapons in Outer Space as a Threat of Force In an interview with German newspaper Die Welt on Friday April 12th, NATO Secretary-General Rutte expressed concern regarding the potential deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in...
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Robert Lawless
| Jan 15, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Weapons Law
Ukraine Symposium – The Budapest Memorandum’s History and Role in the Conflict Last month of 2024 marked the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Budapest Memorandum, part of an agreement by which Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal in return for security assurances...
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Ted Richard
| Feb 16, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Weapons Law
An Assessment of Russia’s Withdrawal from the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty On November 2, 2023, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a law withdrawing the country’s ratification of the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). This multilateral treaty prohibits...
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Michael N. Schmitt,
John C. Tramazzo
| Aug 11, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Other Bodies of Law
A Legal Assessment of North Korean Missile Tests On July 11, 2023, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) Korean People’s Army (KPA) Strategic Force fired a Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), North Korea’s most powerful ballistic...
