TY - BOOK AU - Boothby,William H. TI - Weapons and the law of armed conflict SN - 9780198728504 (hbk.) AV - KZ5624 .B66 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Oxford, United Kingdom PB - Oxford University Press KW - Military weapons KW - Law and legislation KW - Nuclear weapons (International law) KW - War (International law) KW - Humanitarian law N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-407) and index; 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 ER -