LONDON NUCLEAR WARFARE TRIBUNAL
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3.3.1 Detonation of a Single Weapon

Such deliberate use takes the threat of use to its next logical conclusion. Such use is itself illegal for the various reasons examined in the cases given below, but in addition and more importantly such use is illegal if it is likely to bring about limited or general nuclear exchanges leading to a gross breach of all the principles of the laws of war as above.


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