Boothby, William H., <br/><br/>
Weapons and the law of armed conflict / 
William H. Boothby. 
 - Second edition. 
 - xxxvii, 422 pages ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-407) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction -- The evolution of the law of weaponry -- Components of the international law of weaponry -- The use of weapons and the law of targeting -- Customary principles-superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering -- Customary principles-indiscriminate weapons -- Weapons and the environment -- Conventional Weapons Convention -- Poison, poisoned weapons, asphyxiating gases, biological and chemical weapons -- Firearms, bullets, and analogous projectiles -- Mines, booby-traps, and other devices -- Rules relating to other specific technologies -- Nuclear weapons -- Applying weapons law to particular weapon systems -- Cluster munitions -- Maritime and outer space weapons -- Unexploded and abandoned weapons -- Non-international armed conflict -- Compliance with international weapons law -- Technology, humanitarian concern, and the future. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780198728504 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015960854 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Military weapons--Law and legislation.<br/>Nuclear weapons (International law)<br/>War (International law)<br/>Humanitarian law.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KZ5624  / .B66 2016