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In his Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence book, Boyle devotes an entire chapter to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He discusses all legal violations committed. They're codified in international law. America helped write it.
They're more than wore in documents. They're inviolable codes too sacred to breach. Doing so constitutes the supreme crime against peace. Nuremberg principles say so.
Risking WW III amounts to cocking a loaded gun at all humanity and squeezing. America threatens innocent people globally with mass extermination. Today Syria and Iran. Tomorrow nations anywhere on every continent. Russia and China comprise the final frontier. Risking armageddon is indefensible.
Bush threatened preventive nuclear war. Obama maintains his policy. In a second term, he'll likely implement it. So will Romney. US administrations don't change their spots. They twist law and logic to justify the unjustifiable. They'll risk millions of lives and perhaps humanity.
America faces no threat. Neither does Israel. Saying so is categorically untrue. Article 2, paragraph 4 of the UN Charter prohibits threats and use of force except in self-defense if attacked.
Article 51 and Nuremberg set inviolable standards. Breaching them constitutes the supreme unforgivable crime. Boyle calls ill-defined "nuclear deterrence" "nuclear terrorism."
At issue is "planning, preparation, solicitation, and conspiracy to commit Nuremberg crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide."
Lawyers call them "inchoate crimes." They constitute more than the offenses themselves. They involve preparatory crimes ahead of "substantive offenses."
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