Pt. 5 - Challenge to Disarm: The Marshall Island Lawsuits - John Burroughs
Channel: eon3
Date: 2016-08-19

John Burroughs, Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, gives the context and update of the historic lawsuits he is currently arguing before the International Court of Justice and a the U.S. Federal District Court on behalf of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the still genetically devastated site of 67 U.S. nuclear tests in the 1940s and '50s.  

He is part of a team of attorneys representing the tiny Pacific Island nation's landmark lawsuits against the nine nuclear-armed nations for failing to comply with their obligations under international law to pursue negotiations for the worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons. 

For more info:  Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy http://lcnp.org/ 
and Nuclear Zero  http://www.nuclearzero.org/