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4 - Legal Congruence with Existing Treaty Obligations: Toward Complementary or Competing Interests?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2021

Jonathan L. Black-Branch
Affiliation:
University of Manitoba, Canada
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The text of the TPNW was agreed during a relatively short negotiation period. It includes comprehensive prohibitions regarding participation in any nuclear weapon activities, including undertakings not to develop, test, produce, acquire, possess, stockpile, use or threaten to use nuclear weapons. The Treaty prohibits the deployment of nuclear weapons on national territory and requires states parties to prevent and suppress any prohibited activity by persons within or on their territory or under their jurisdiction or control.

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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Legal Challenges for Military Doctrines and Deterrence Policies
, pp. 74 - 104
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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