


An Assessment of Russia’s Withdrawal from the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
by 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...
A Legal Assessment of North Korean Missile Tests
by 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...
Deficiencies and Ambiguities of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
by Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov | Sep 30, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Other Bodies of Law
Deficiencies and Ambiguities of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Touted as an effort to “reframe the debate on nuclear weapons,” the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has currently accumulated 66 ratifications, a little over a year...
Ukraine Symposium – Lawful Use of Nuclear Weapons
by Jay Jackson, Kenneth "Daniel" Jones | Apr 26, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Lawful Use of Nuclear Weapons The February invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces was followed by an even graver threat to global peace as the Kremlin announced President Vladimir Putin’s order to raise Russia’s nuclear forces into a higher...