This fifth volume in the book series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law focuses on various legal aspects regarding nuclear security and nuclear deterrence.

The series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law provides scholarly research articles with critical commentaries on relevant treaty law, best practice and legal developments, thus offering an academic analysis and information on practical legal and diplomatic developments both globally and regionally. It sets a basis for further constructive discourse at both national and international levels.

Jonathan L. Black-Branch is Dean of Law and Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of Manitoba in Canada; a Bencher of the Law Society of Manitoba; JP and Barrister (England & Wales); Barrister & Solicitor (Manitoba); and Chair of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Nuclear Weapons, Non-Proliferation & Contemporary International Law.

Dieter Fleck is Former Director International Agreements & Policy, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany; Member of the Advisory Board of the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL); and Rapporteur of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Nuclear Weapons, Non-Proliferation & Contemporary International Law.

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This fifth volume in the book series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law focuses on various legal aspects regarding nuclear security and nuclear deterrence.

The series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law provides scholarly research articles with critical commentaries on relevant treaty law, best practice and legal developments, thus offering an academic analysis and information on practical legal and diplomatic developments both globally and regionally. It sets a basis for further constructive discourse at both national and international levels.

Jonathan L. Black-Branch is Dean of Law and Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of Manitoba in Canada; a Bencher of the Law Society of Manitoba; JP and Barrister (England & Wales); Barrister & Solicitor (Manitoba); and Chair of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Nuclear Weapons, Non-Proliferation & Contemporary International Law.

Dieter Fleck is Former Director International Agreements & Policy, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany; Member of the Advisory Board of the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL); and Rapporteur of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Nuclear Weapons, Non-Proliferation & Contemporary International Law.

Chaper 1. Legal Challenges for Nuclear Security and Deterrence.- Part I. Global Issues and Concerns.- Chapter 2. Questioning International Nuclear Weapons Law as a Field of Resistance.- Chapter 3. The NPT-CTBT Connection.- Chapter 4. Planning for Disaster ? Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku Disaster.- Chapter 5. The Legal Regime of the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Space Missions.- Chapter 6. The 2016 ILC Draft Articles on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters and their Relevance for Victims of Nuclear Accidents and Use of Nuclear Weapons.- Chapter 7. Sanctions in Nuclear Non-Proliferation Law.- Part II. Regional Matters.- Chapter 8. The Unclassical Match Between Brazil and Argentina: Past and Present of the Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Latin America and the Caribbean.- Chapter 9. Lessons from South Africa’s Voluntary Denuclearisation Process and the African Continent’s Position on Nuclear Weapons.- Chapter 10. Foreign Assistance in Establishing and Operating Nuclear Power Plants: The South African Experience.- Chapter 11. Small Modular Reactors in Canada: Eroding Public Oversight and Canada’s Transition to Sustainable Development.- Part III. New Approaches towards Nuclear Disarmament.- Chapter 12. Understanding Nuclear Deterrence within the International Constitutional Architecture.- Chapter 13. Running Out of (Legal) Excuses: Extended Nuclear Deterrence in the Era of the Prohibition Treaty.- Chapter 14.  The Link between Nuclear Disarmament and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter 15. Possible Means to Overcome Tendencies of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty to Erode the NPT.- Chapter 16. Precarious Peace:  Nuclear Deterrence and Defence Doctrines of Nuclear-Weapon States in the Post-Cold War Era.- Chapter 17. Legal Aspects of Nuclear Weapons Doctrines.- Index.