“The mere acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by a rogue nation is an act of aggression. Given the nature of these weapons, the traditional rules requiring a threat of imminent attack are either satisfied by such attempted acquisition, or should n

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Code Law and Ethics in War and Warfare

The mere acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by a rogue nation is an act of aggression . Given the nature of these weapons , the traditional rules requiring a threat of imminent attack are either satisfied by such attempted acquisition , or should not apply . Every nation has the inherent right to use military force to prevent such acquisition if it reasonably believes such weapons might be used against them

Introduction

Yod Vashem - The Holocaust and the Gas Chamber

p The leader of the Third Reich , Adolph Hitler saw a growing empire Little is known that Germany rose to power and such was a formidable force of being united as a nation long before it was divided into West and East Germany . The Fuhrer had a clandestine plan and gathered the Nazis to annihilate six million Jews who where then existing at that time . These were secluded from the rest of them (as there were Jewish survivors )and were placed in secret gas chambers . Slowly one by one the murderous acts were completed this time . Poison gas emitted from various exhaust pipes upon inhalation the six million Jews breathed their last Hence , Germany pioneered the use of chemical biological warfare

Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Aftermath of the Atomic Bomb

Accordingly , American scientists in the late 1940s discovered the theory of splitting the atom - giving birth to nuclear fusion and nuclear fission . On the fateful day of August 06 , 1945 , the United States used a strategy to end the war with Japan . It was to drop a fifteen kiloton atomic bomb on board a U .S . B17 bomber named Enola Gay ' hovering above the sky as it entered Japanese airspace at one thousand eight hundred feet (1800 ft ) and overlooking the city of Hiroshima . Opening its hatch , it unloaded its deadly cargo

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and there the bomb was released to a non - military target . Far down below a fireball

erupted creating a massive mushroom cloud and releasing tremendous amounts of energy . Leveling buildings and various structures bringing about to no more than seventy thousand (70 ,000 )civilian deaths . Similarly three days later on August 09 , 1945 , the city of Nagasaki suffered the same fate . Civilian casualties where also at an enormous rate . More than ever , the effects therefore of the atomic bomb aftermath were both devastating as years gone by radiation slowly crept in and many more Japanese by the thousands died . That very moment the great samurai was beheaded - Japan surrendered

Vietnam and Agent Orange

In the 1950 's again the United States went to war in Vietnam , as the North was led by Marxist ideology , winning the North to Communism , and the South was supported by the United States then . B52 bombers went on a campaign sortie . There was continuous bombardment of North Vietnam . The Vietcong 's therefore were severely burned as Napalm was used in incendiary devices likewise agent orange an agricultural chemical pesticide - a weed killer was then used . It destroyed the Vietnamese population as well as crops and livestock leaving rice lands to waste Agent Orange was a predecessor of poison gas in the late 1939

1980s - The Kurdish Rebellion and the Iran - Iraq War

Likewise , during the Iran - Iraq war in the 1980s the most affected group of people were the Kurds . Again more than four hundred thousand (400 ,000 )of its populace died as a result of the said conflict Both the governments of Iran and Iraq exchanged missiles and or projectiles that were sent to both civilian and military targets . After a while the war between them ceased and later the Kurds were at the mercy of the regime of Saddam Hussein 's campaign to wipe out the Kurds and drove them further north

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This brought about the use of Saddam 's nerve gas attacks

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Ethnic Cleansing

Bosnia and Herzegovina went to war upon amassing enough weapons to fight it out as to who is the better race . A repetition of the Nazi 's holocaust account of the Jews . It was a quest for racial supremacy that led to genocide . Muslims , Croats , Serbs and Bosnians faced these consequences the cruelty of war

Hostile Iran and Israel - The Boiling Point

Prior to the outbreak of the war between Hizballah and Israel , the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued a bombshell statement when he addressed a crowd on April 11 in the northeastern city of Mashdad , I am officially announcing that Iran has joined the group of those countries which have nuclear technology ' A well founded belief after the death of Ayatollah Khomeni . The Ayatollah 's rhetoric of sowing hatred toward the Jews was then repeated when the Iranian president said 'Israel must be wiped off the map ' Then on the summer of August 2006 Iran consequently conspired with theHizballah army by being their supplier of Katsuya rockets of which Hizballah sent a barrage on a daily basis affecting mostly the Northern Israel territories . It became the nightmare for most of the Jews living in the area . A truce or compromise was entered into after the United Nations intervened in the said conflict

In Conclusion

We now have seen the various effects of the use of weapons of mass destruction . Some have regarded this as an act of aggression or self - preservation or an act of self - defense . There must be a deterrence in the use of these weapons thereof . Recently , The focus will now lie with Iran as the main culprit for being qualified as rogue nation defying

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the sanctions it might face from the United Nations Security Council Iran definitely has made a deception that their nuclear program was not for defense but was under the pretense of nuclear energy . A growing worldwide threat emerges if no action will be taken by the United Nations to impose the strictest sanctions through an embargo and cut off trade relations with this deceitful nation in pursuing its plans to accumulate more uranium resources for its nuclear program . Definitely in Asia , North Korea , under Kim Jong Il 's presidency as of late October 2006 also made efforts that their country is likewise nuclear capable Far behind in terms of facilities and technology it cannot surpassed that of Iran in being a nuclear power . Large numbers of civilians are killed or injured each year by "explosive remnants of war " These are the unexploded artillery shells , hand grenades , mortars , cluster sub munitions , rockets and other explosive ordnance that remain after the end of an armed conflict . Like anti-personnel mines , the presence of these weapons has serious consequences for civilians and their communities

The Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War was concluded to help address the problem . It requires each party to an armed conflict to remove and to provide assistance for the removal of these weapons and to take other measures to reduce the threat to civilians . Along with the Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-personnel Mines , the Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War is an important element in the efforts to minimize death , injury and suffering in war-torn areas . With this protocol in mind , Iran and North Korea should consider of not pursuing their goals of achieving nuclear supremacy but for the preservation of the human race and the world itself 5

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International Law , Isagani Cruz

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The mere acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by a rogue nation is an act of aggression . Given the nature of these weapons , the traditional rules requiring a threat of imminent attack are either satisfied by such attempted acquisition , or should not apply . Every nation has the inherent right to use military force to prevent such acquisition if it reasonably believes such weapons might be used against them

Introduction

Yod Vashem - The Holocaust and the Gas Chamber

The leader of the Third Reich , Adolph Hitler saw a growing empire Little is known that Germany rose to power and such was a formidable force of being united as a nation long before it was divided into West and East Germany . The Fuhrer had a clandestine plan and gathered the Nazis to annihilate six million Jews who where then existing at that time . These were secluded from the rest of them (as there were Jewish survivors )and were placed in secret gas chambers . Slowly one by one the murderous acts were completed this time . Poison gas emitted from various exhaust pipes upon inhalation the six million Jews breathed their last Hence , Germany pioneered the use of chemical biological warfare

Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Aftermath of the Atomic Bomb

Accordingly , American scientists in the late 1940s discovered the theory of splitting the atom - giving birth to nuclear fusion and nuclear fission . On the fateful day of August 06 , 1945 , the United States used a strategy to end the war with Japan . It was to drop a fifteen kiloton atomic bomb on board a U .S . B17 bomber named Enola Gay ' hovering above the sky as it entered Japanese airspace at one thousand eight hundred feet (1800 ft ) and overlooking the city of Hiroshima . Opening its hatch , it unloaded its deadly cargo and there the bomb was released to a non - military target . Far down below a fireball erupted creating a massive mushroom cloud and releasing tremendous amounts of energy Levelling buildings and various structures bringing about to no more than seventy thousand (70 ,000 )civilian deaths . Similarly three days later on August 09 , 1945 , the city of Nagasaki suffered the same fate Civilian casualties where also at an enormous rate . More than ever , the effects therefore of the atomic bomb aftermath were both devastating as years gone by radiation slowly crept in and many more Japanese by the thousands died . That very moment the great samurai was beheaded - Japan surrendered

Vietnam and Agent Orange

In the 1950 's again the United States went to war in Vietnam , as the North was led by Marxist ideology , winning the North to Communism , and the South was supported by the United States then . B52 bombers went on a campaign sortie . There was continuous bombardment of North Vietnam . The Vietcong 's therefore were severely burned as Napalm was used in incendiary devices likewise agent orange an agricultural chemical pesticide - a weed killer was then used . It destroyed the Vietnamese population as well as crops and livestock leaving rice lands to waste Agent Orange was a predecessor of poison gas in the late 1939

1980s - The Kurdish Rebellion and the Iran - Iraq War

Likewise , during the Iran - Iraq war in the 1980s the most affected group of people were the Kurds . Again more than four hundred thousand (400 ,000 )of its populace died as a result of the said conflict Both the governments of Iran and Iraq exchanged missiles and or projectiles that were sent to both civilian and military targets . After a while the war between them ceased and later the Kurds were at the mercy of the regime of Saddam Hussein 's campaign to wipe out the Kurds and drove them further north . This brought about the use of Saddam 's nerve gas attacks

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Ethnic Cleansing

Bosnia and Herzegovina went to war upon amassing enough weapons to fight it out as to who is the better race . A repetition of the Nazi 's holocaust account of the Jews . It was a quest for racial supremacy that led to genocide . Muslims , Croats , Serbs and Bosnians faced these consequences the cruelty of war

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