Viewing nuclear weapons through a humanitarian lens
Subtitle: context and implications
By: John Borrie and Tim Caughley, editors
Contributors: United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
Publisher: United Nations
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9789290452027
Subjects: Nuclear weapons (International law); Humanitarian law
Notes: "UNIDIR/2013/4."

"United Nations publications sales no. GV.E.13.0.1"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Issued by: United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.
Table of contents: title: Tracing notions about humanitarian consequences  -- Tim Caughley; title: Viewing nuclear weapons through a humanitarian lens : context and implications  -- John Borrie; title: Legitimizing and delegitimizing nuclear weapons  -- Nick Ritchie; title: The meaning of the Oslo Conference on the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons  -- Patricia Lewis and Heather Williams; title: After Oslo : humanitarian perspectives and the changing nuclear weapons discourse  -- John Borrie and Tim Caughley; title: Responding to the detonation of nuclear weapons : a United Nations humanitarian perspective  -- Simon Bagshaw; title: The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons : the key issues and perspectives of the International Committee of the Red Cross  -- Lou Maresca; title: Humanitarian perspectives and the campaign for an international ban on nuclear weapons -- Magnus Løvold, Beatrice Fihn, and Thomas Nash.