Episode Details

Join host Kathryn Rubino in a riveting episode with law professor Charles Moxley, expert and author of "Nuclear Weapons and International Law". Discover the legal complexities and real-world implications of nuclear policy, deterrence, and modernization. Can law guide us towards nuclear abolition? Stay informed and engaged!

Highlights

• Examining the US's nuclear policies versus international law.
• The esoteric nature of international law and its neglect.
• Different alerts and readiness levels in nuclear weapons policy.
• Legal principle of precaution and US non-compliance.
• Distinction, proportionality, and necessity in nuclear law.
• Nuclear deterrence vs. readiness explained.
• Russia-Ukraine conflict's impact on nuclear weapon risks.
• Failures in US policy to reconsider nuclear weapon modernization.
• The inadequate concern among younger generations about nuclear risks.
• Comparison between legal treatments of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.
• Appeal to consider law as the path to nuclear abolition.

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