NP? Bush Nuclear Policy Violates International Law, Again

[Doug Millison]

http://www.counterpunch.org/boylenukes.html

March 14, 2002

Bush Nuclear Policy Violates International Law, Again

By Francis Boyle

[...] The Bush Jr. administration is making it crystal clear to all its
chosen adversaries around the world that it is fully prepared to cross the
threshold of actually using nuclear weapons that has prevailed since the
U.S. criminal bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Yet more proof of the fact that the United States government has abandoned
"deterrence" for "compellance" in order to rule the future world of the
Third Millenium.

The Bush Jr. administration has obviously become a "threat to the peace"
within the meaning of U.N. Charter article 39. It must be countermanded by
the U.N. Security Council acting under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter. In
the event of a U.S veto of such "enforcement action" by the Security
Council, then the U.N. General Assembly must deal with the Bush Jr.
administration by invoking its Uniting for Peace Resolution of 1950.

There very well could be some itty-bitty "rogue states" lurking out there
somewhere in the Third World. But today the United States government has
become the sole "rogue elephant" of international law and politics. For the
good of all humanity America must be restrained. Time is of the essence!

Francis Boyle is human rights lawyer and a professor of law at the
University of Illinois. He is the author of The Criminality of Nuclear
Deterrence, recently published by Clarity Press. He can be reached at:
FBOYLE at LAW.UIUC.EDU