On a beautiful summer's evening in 1999, three women - Ellen Moxley, Ulla Roder, and Angie Zelter - boarded a barge moored on a Scottish loch and threw some computer equipment overboard. Sheriff Margaret Gimblett acquitted 'The Trident Three' on the basis that they were acting as global citizens preventing nuclear crime. This led to what is thought to be the world's first High Court examination of the legality of an individual state's deployment of nuclear weapons...Is Trident inherently unlawful and immoral? When can a ...
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On a beautiful summer's evening in 1999, three women - Ellen Moxley, Ulla Roder, and Angie Zelter - boarded a barge moored on a Scottish loch and threw some computer equipment overboard. Sheriff Margaret Gimblett acquitted 'The Trident Three' on the basis that they were acting as global citizens preventing nuclear crime. This led to what is thought to be the world's first High Court examination of the legality of an individual state's deployment of nuclear weapons...Is Trident inherently unlawful and immoral? When can a state use or threaten to use nuclear weapons? Should international law take precedence over a sovereign government's? Can a government be held accountable for ownership of weapons of mass destruction? When is a citizen justified in acting against what she reasonably believes to be Government crime? Is whose name does the UK government deploy 144 nuclear warheads, each around 10 times the power of that dropped on Hiroshima killing some 150,000 people? The High Court failed to answer any of these questions. Trident Ploughshares continues to challenge the legitimacy of UK Nuclear Forces. In 1996 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons. The ICJ is also known as the World Court and is the judicial arm of the United Nations used for adjudicating disputes between nations. The Advisory Opinion stated that the threat or use of nuclear weapons would generally be contrary to the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict. This ruling was to affect Angie Zelter's life profoundly. It was the beginning of Trident Poughshares, the civil-resistance campaign of People's Disarmament. This is Angie's personal account of the campaign. It also includes profiles of and contributions by some of the people and groups who have pledged to prevent nuclear crime in peaceful and practical ways. Without such public pressure governments will not abide by the Advisory Opinion nor implement their international agreements to abolish nuclear weapons.
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Add this copy of Trident on Trial the Case for People's Disarmament to cart. $13.95, good condition, Sold by True Oak Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Highland, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Luath Press Ltd.
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Good. Angie Zelter has been a leading figure in the campaign against the Trident nuclear submarine system. This book puts forward her case. Illustrator(s): McLeod, Cinders. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JPSF; JPWF; JWMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 136 x 25. Weight in Grams: 390. Clean copy of an ex library book with a neat label on spine and usual markings. 2001. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 450grams, ISBN: 9781842820049.
