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Viewing nuclear weapons through a humanitarian lens

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Title Viewing nuclear weapons through a humanitarian lens / John Borrie and Tim Caughley, editors.
Contributors Borrie, John
Caughley, Tim
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
Publisher New York : United Nations
Creation Date 2013
Notes Includes chapter on the Oslo Conference on the Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons, held 4-5 Mar. 2013.
Also available online
Includes bibliographical references.
Content Tracing notions about humanitarian consequences / Tim Caughley -- Viewing nuclear weapons through a humanitarian lens : context and implications / John Borrie -- Legitimizing and delegitimizing nuclear weapons / Nick Ritchie -- The meaning of the Oslo Conference on the humanitarian impacts of nuclear weapons / Patricia Lewis and Heather Williams -- After Oslo : humanitarian perspectives and the changing nuclear weapons discourse / John Borrie and Tim Caughley -- Responding to the detonation of nuclear weapons : a United Nations humanitarian perspective / Simon Bagshaw -- The catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons : the key issues and perspectives of the International Committee of the Red Cross / Lou Maresca -- Humanitarian perspectives and the campaign for an international ban on nuclear weapons / Magnus Løvold, Beatrice Fihn, and Thomas Nash.
Extent xii, 157 pages : ill
21 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990036479230205171

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