Japan and the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty: The Wrong Side of History, Geography, Legality, Morality, and Humanity

By refusing to sign the new UN Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty, Japan has put itself on the wrong side of history, geography, legality, morality, and humanity. The treaty is part of the broad historically progressive trend since 1945 to limit and abolish nuclear weapons and their use. The normati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ramesh Thakur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
Subjects:
NPT
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25751654.2018.1407579