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Long Arms And Chemical Arms: Extraterritoriality And The Draft Chemical Weapons Convention, David A. Koplow
Long Arms And Chemical Arms: Extraterritoriality And The Draft Chemical Weapons Convention, David A. Koplow
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Chemical warfare has long been considered a particularly loathsome form of combat. The specter of unprotected soldiers and nearby noncombatants incapacitated or killed within moments by invisible, silent, odorless vapors discharged by a far-distant enemy has terrified many, and has also energized repeated international attempts to prohibit, or at least to moderate, these applications of deadly science.
Our Rights And Obligations To Future Generations For The Environment, Edith Brown Weiss
Our Rights And Obligations To Future Generations For The Environment, Edith Brown Weiss
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
We read every day about the desecration of our environment and the mismanagement of our natural resources. We have always had the capacity to wreck the environment on a small or even regional scale. Centuries of irrigation without adequate drainage in ancient times converted large areas of the fertile Tigris-Euphrates valley into barren desert. What is new is that we now have the power to change our global environment irreversibly, with profoundly damaging effects on the robustness and integrity of the planet and the heritage that we pass to future generations.