A History of the Laws of War : The Customs and Laws of War with Regards to Arms Control.

Intro -- A History of the Laws of War: Volume 3: Weapons -- A History of the Laws of War: Volume 3 -- Table of Contents -- Treaties and Sources -- Introduction -- 1. The Conversation on Sunday Afternoon -- 2. Progress, Utopia and Warfare -- 3. Facts -- 4. Progress in the Area of Arms Control -- I. Conventional Weapons -- 1. The Beginnings of Arms Control -- 2. Gunpowder -- 3. Trade and Control -- 4. Superfluous Injury -- 5. Indiscriminate Injury -- 6. After the First World War -- A. Forced Arms Reductions -- B. The Naval Conventions -- C. Controlling the Arms Trade -- D. Indiscriminate Conventional Weapons: Sea Mines -- 7. After the Second World War -- A. The Spread of Conventional Weapons -- 8. After the Cold War -- A. Superfluous Injury -- B. Indiscriminate Injury -- C. The Trade in Conventional Weapons -- II Weapons of Mass Destruction -- 1. Chemical Weapons -- A. Poison and Other Chemicals in the History of Warfare -- B. The Convention on Chemical Weapons -- 2. Biological Weapons -- A. Disease and the History of Warfare -- B. Between the 1925 Protocol and the 1972 Convention -- C. The 1972 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Productionand Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and Their Destruction -- 3. Nuclear Weapons -- A. Controlling Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War -- B. The End of the Cold War -- C. The New Conventional Threats -- D. The New Unconventional Threats -- Conclusion -- 1. Has the Stockpiling and Flow of Weaponry to Places Where it Inflames Conflict Improved? -- 2. Are Weapons which Cause Unnecessary Pain Restricted -- 3. What are the Customs and Practices with Indiscriminate Weapons? -- Index.

This unique new work of reference traces the origins of the modern laws of warfare from the earliest times to the present day relying on written records from as far back as 2400 BC, and using sources ranging from the Bible to Security Council Resolutions.

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