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Skip to main content Historical and Legal Perspectives on Unnecessary Suffering Book Sep 2025 Latest edition Overview Uses an interdisciplinary approach to studying international humanitarian law and the use of nuclear weapons Examines the evolution of the principle prohibiting superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering in IHL Argues that weapons causing long term harmful effects violate this principle in both medical and military terms The book examines the central reasons behind the...
Artist's concept of Ground Based Strategic Deterrent. Credit: Northrop Grumman While politicians continue to bicker over President Biden’s proposed spending for social and climate programs, Congress passed a $768 billion defense spending package with rare and overwhelming bipartisan support on December 15. That was about $24 billion more than the president had requested. The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act includes nearly $28 billion for nuclear weapons activities.
Two members of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, John S. Lawrence and Herman E. Pearse, Jr., visiting ground zero in Hiroshima in June 1947. (From Radiology in World War II, Office of the Surgeon General, US Army, 1966) In the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, the Trump Administration announced its intention to expand the US nuclear arsenal under the doctrine of so-called “flexible deterrence,” including a tactical nuclear weapons upgrade.
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