Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, where a 15-megaton device equivalent to a thousand Hiroshima blasts, detonated in 1954. Photograph: US Air Force - digital version
Marshall Islands Sues Nuclear Powers -- Al Jazeera
The Marshall Islands has accused the US and eight other nations of "flagrant violations" of international nuclear law.
The Pacific nation of the Marshall Islands is taking on the United States and the other eight heavyweight nuclear-armed nations with an unprecedented lawsuit, accusing them of "flagrant violations" of international law.
The island group filed legal claims on Wednesday against each of the nine countries - Russia, Britain, France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea - in the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Netherlands.
The islands have accused the countries of violating the 1958 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and provisions under its "customary international law".
The Marshall Islands claims that the countries are modernising their nuclear arsenals instead of taking steps towards disarmament.
It estimates the countries will spend $1 trillion on those arsenals over the next decade.
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Marshall Islands Sues Nine Nuclear-Armed Powers -- WSJ
Pacific Island Nation Sues U.S., Others For Violating Nuclear Treaty -- NPR
Marshall Islands sues nine nuclear powers over failure to disarm -- The Guardian
Can a tiny Pacific island nation stop nuclear powers? -- Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge
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My Comment: This is a mouse roaring at nine lions.
1 comment:
That's strange, don't ever recall Israel being a signatory of the Nonproliferation Treaty...
Good luck with that one Marshall Islands..
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