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News Nuclear weapons: historic opportunity to ensure they will never be used again 20-4-2010 News release 20-4-2010 TV news footage Section Nuclear weapons and international humanitarian law
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The ICRC welcomed the Court’s unequivocal reaffirmation of the principles and rules of IHL as applied to the use of nuclear weapons. In 2002 it refined its own position in the light of the Court’s opinion. The position reaffirms that “the principles of distinction and proportionality and the prohibition on causing superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering, apply to the use of nuclear weapons”. 20-4-2010 Bringing the era of nuclear weapons to an endStatement by Jakob Kellenberger, President of the ICRC, to the Geneva Diplomatic Corps, Geneva,
20 April 2010 (Humanitarian law\Weapons\Nuclear weapons) Official Statement Includes Photo 20-4-2010 Nuclear weapons: an historic opportunityIn recent months, energetic diplomatic efforts have put nuclear weapons and their proliferation at the top of States' agendas, resulting in long-overdue opportunities for progress. On 20 April the ICRC President appealed to States to ensure nuclear weapons are never again used and to negotiate an international agreement to prohibit and eliminate these destructive weapons. As the head of the ICRC's Arms Unit, Peter Herby, explains, the ICRC believes an historic opportunity currently exists to bring the era of nuclear weapons to an end. (Humanitarian law\Weapons\Nuclear weapons) Interview 30-6-2009 International assistance for victims of use of nuclear, radiological, biological and chemical weapons: time for a reality check?At an international level, there are no plans for assisting the victims of a nuclear, radiological, biological or chemical (NRBC) event which are both adequate and safe. This article examines the challenges posed to humanitarian organisations in developing and deploying any capacity to assist victims of an NRBC event, including in terms of the health and security of their personnel bringing this assistance. (Info resources\International Review\2009 - No. 874) International Review of the Red Cross Includes PDF 30-9-2005 The International Committee of the Red Cross and nuclear weapons: From Hiroshima to the dawn of the 21st centuryThe question of the lawfulness of the use of nuclear weapons and that of their possible prohibition have therefore been the subject of repeated discussions since 1945, without any success being achieved. either in reaching a definitive conclusion as to their lawfulness or in
negotiating a general agreement to ban them. (Info resources\International Review\2005 - No. 859) International Review of the Red Cross Includes PDF 4-3-2003 Use of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons: current international law and policy statementsInformation note to Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies about the ICRC position (Humanitarian law\Weapons) 12-9-2005 The Hiroshima disaster – a doctor's accountExtracts from the report written by the ICRC's Dr. Marcel Junod, the first foreign doctor to reach Hiroshima after the atom bomb attack on 6 August 1945, and to treat some of the victims. (About the ICRC\History\Second World War) Feature 18-3-2003 The ICRC and the nuclear weapon: the story of an uncomfortable paradoxOn the 16th of July 1945 at 5:29:45 am exactly, the "Nuclear Age" mushroomed upon the world. That was when the world's first nuclear device was detonated marking the successful outcome of the epochal Manhattan Project. Three weeks later, following the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, war and peace had been transformed beyond recognition. Indeed, peace could no longer be a tranquil, threat-free, condition; henceforth the failure of peace could mean the total destruction of Humanity. (Humanitarian law\Weapons\Nuclear weapons) Feature 30-6-2007 Who will assist the victims of use of nuclear, radiological, biological or chemical weapons – and how?It is uncertain who will assist the victims of use of nuclear, radiological, biological or chemical weapons if an international response is required and how this assistance can be provided without undue risk to those providing it. The use of such weapons presents a variety of risks and the political and security implications are serious and complex. This article shows the difficulties inherent in assisting the victims of use of nuclear, radiological, biological and chemical weapons. (Info resources\International Review\2007 - No. 866) International Review of the Red Cross Includes PDF 30-9-2005 Use of nuclear and radiological weapons by terrorists?The hurdles for terrorists to get a nuclear weapon are extremely high. The probability of terrorist use of such a weapon is therefore extremely low. In contrast to the nuclear weapon case there are in principle no insurmountable obstacles to the acquisition and use of radiological weapons by a well-organized terrorist group, even though such an action remains high-tech and thus very difficult. (Info resources\International Review\2005 - No. 859) International Review of the Red Cross Includes PDF 30-6-2001 The ICRC and the 1962 Cuban missile crisisThis article deals with the unusual role the ICRC was ready to play in that crisis and sheds new light on how it came to be engaged in these highly political matters. (Info resources\International Review\2001 - No. 842) International Review of the Red Cross Includes PDF 28-2-1997 International Review of the Red Cross, 1997 - No. 316Special issue: the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of nuclear weapons and international humanitarian law (Humanitarian law\Weapons\Nuclear weapons) International Review of the Red Cross 31-8-1996 International humanitarian law and nuclear weaponsOn 8 July 1996, the International Court of Justice gave its advisory opinion in response to two enquiries as to the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons (Info resources\International Review\1996 - No. 313) International Review of the Red Cross 9-10-2009 Weapons: ICRC statement to the United Nations United Nations, General Assembly, 64th session, First Committee, Items 96 & 100 of the agenda, Statement by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), New York, 9 October 2009 (ICRC Activities\Humanitarian diplomacy\United Nations\64th General Assembly) Official Statement 31-12-1996 The weapons issue - Statement of the ICRC at the United NationsStatement of the ICRC at the United Nations General Assembly, 51st session, 19 October 1996 (Humanitarian law\Weapons\Nuclear weapons) Official Statement 5-4-1950 Atomic weapons and non-directed missilesInternational Committee of the Red Cross to the High Contracting Parties, Signatory to the Geneva Conventions for the Protection of the Victims of War (Humanitarian law\Weapons\Nuclear weapons) Official Statement 5-9-1945 ICRC appeal: "Mankind is faced with a problem of supreme gravity..."Full text of the statement issued by the ICRC on 5 September 1945, in the light of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which brought the war to an end. (About the ICRC\History\Second World War) Official Statement 20-4-2010 ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger appeals to States to bring nuclear weapons to an endIn a personal televised statement, Mr Kellenberger, appeals to states to seize a historic opportunity to end the era of nuclear weapons. He recalls the testimony of ICRC delegate Marcel Junod, the first foreign doctor to bring assistance to victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Nuclear weapons are unique in their destructive power, causing unspeakable human suffering. The world cannot wait to end this grave threat to future generations and the survival of humanity. (Info resources\Video) Video Collection |