Chapter 1

1. Richard Falk, “Toward a Legal Regime for Nuclear Weapons” in Richard Falk, Friedrich Kratochwil and Saul H. Mendelovitz (eds), International Law: A Contemporary Perspective (Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1985), p. 455.

2. Ibid.

3. The “humanization of warfare” is employed among others by Hans Morgenthau in his classic work Politics Among Nations (New Delhi: Kalyani Publishers [6th ed.] Indian Reprint, 1997), p. 254.

4. Detlev F. Vagts, “The Hague Conventions and Arms Control,” American Journal of International Law, Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 31–41. A useful distinction is introduced in this article between “quantitative” and “qualitative” arms control efforts. While the former “refers to controls that permit a given category of weapons ...

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