International Law Reports
Edition: 1st Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 1, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 754
ISBN-13: 9780521463713
Subjects: International law reports; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Law; Politics/International Relations; Air & Space; Law / Air & Space; International
First sentence: THE FACTS.-The plaintiffs, who were respectively American citizens, residents of the Marshall Islands, and other non-resident aliens, brought this action to enjoin the Commissioners of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Secretary of Defense from detonating any nuclear weapons that would produce radiation or radioactive atomic nuclei, on the grounds that such radiation would cause serious genetic and somatic injury to the plaintiffs and the population of the world in general, including unborn generations.