Books

 

Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security?
U.S. Weapons of Terror, The Global Proliferation Crisis, and Paths to Peace

Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, Western States Legal Foundation, and Reaching Critical Will/WILPF, 2007

Online edition available here.

An assessment of the Final Report of the Hans Blix-led WMD Commission, it provides analysis and recommendations regarding U.S. policy in relation to nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, nuclear weapons R&D, missiles and weapons in space, climate change and nuclear power, Iran and the nuclear fuel-cycle, and demilitarization and redefining security in human terms.

 

 

Rule of Power or Rule of Law?
An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties

Institute for Energy and Environmental Research and Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, Apex Press 2003

Examines U.S. undermining of multilateral treaty regimes on nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, landmines, global warming, and international justice.

 

 

The Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons:
A Guide to the Historic Opinion of the International Court of Justice

John Burroughs, International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, Transaction 1998

 

Articles and papers

 

The Inadmissibility of Nuclear Threats, John Burroughs, Arms Control Today, April 2024

Fordham International Law Journal, Vol. 34, 2011:

Rethinking General and Complete Disarmament in the Twenty-first Century, UN Office of Disarmament Affairs Occasional Papers, No. 28, October 2016. Includes chapter by LCNP Executive Director John Burroughs

International Humanitarian Law and Nuclear Weapons: Examining the Humanitarian Approach to Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Abolition Forum, No. 1, 2011. Includes articles by John Burroughs, Peter Weiss, and Randy Rydell growing out of a conference sponsored by The Simons Foundation and the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms.

A Legal Path to a Nuclear Weapons Free World, Peter Weiss, Austrian Review of International and European Law, 2010

Peace, Law and Nuclear Weapons (As Seen by Two Jews and an Arab), Peter Weiss, Palestine-Israel Journal, March 2010

Weapons of Mass Destruction and Human Rights, Peter Weiss and John Burroughs, Disarmament Forum, July 2004

Arms Control Abandoned: The Case of Biological Weapons, Nicole Deller and John Burroughs, World Policy Journal, Summer 2003

Jus ad Bellum: Law Regulating Resort to Force, Nicole Deller and John Burroughs, Human Rights Magazine, American Bar Association, January 1, 2003

Ending the Nuclear Nightmare: A Strategy for the Bush Administration, Jim Wurst and John Burroughs, World Policy Journal, Spring 2001