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The advisory opinion was an important legal development, giving the backing of the highest international authority to what many anti-nuclear campaigners instinctively felt. This website attempts to make sense of the opinion, to inform about legal developments since, to give anti-nuclear activists legal material they can use in addition to their other campaigning tactics and to report how this has been done.

It is hoped also that the site will be useful to students working on projects about nuclear weapons.

How to use this site

Much of the material on this site is inevitably quite long and complicated. However we have attempted to structure and provide a guide through the material by dividing it into five general categories.  This division is inevitably somewhat arbitrary and to help find a particular subject a complete list of all pages on the site is given in the Site Guide and Archive section. 

History of the World Court Project

How it all started.

Nuclear Weapons and the Law

Reports, discussion and theory of the law in relation to nuclear weapons.

Nuclear Weapons in Court

Actual court cases involving nuclear weapons

Dialogue with those in Power

What government ministers or officials have actually said or written on the subject in response to World Court Project approaches.

Non-Proliferation Treaty

Information on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT) and especially the Revue Conference held in May 2005.

Government Position

Information on what we have gleaned from various sources on the government's actual position on nuclear weapons and the law.

Campaigning

News and advice on campaigning against nuclear weapons