Nuclear Weapons

Stuart Casey-Maslen is an Honorary Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He was the legal advisor to the Austria delegation in the diplomatic conference that negotiated the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in 2017. He has written or edited ten major works on different aspects of weapons law.

• Cases and Materials; Introduction; 1. The development of nuclear weapons; 2. Use of nuclear weapons; 3. The treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons; 4. The testing of nuclear weapons; 5. Agreements between Russia and the United States; 6. Treaties prohibiting nuclear weapons; 7. Verification; 8. Use and testing of nuclear weapons under international law; Concluding remarks on the future of nuclear arms control and disarmament; Select bibliography.