Dragana Thibault--Albany Law School LL.M. in International Law, Class of 2020--was born and raised in Macedonia. She received her Bachelor in Laws (LL.B.) in 2014 and Master of Law (LL.M. in Civil Substantive and Procedural Law) in 2016 at the Faculty of Law Iustinuanus Primus. Throughout her Master studies at Iustinuanus Primus, Dragana was supporting classroom activities in Civil Law and Property Law as a Teaching Assistant.During her time at Albany Law, Dragana worked on a project at the Research Foundation for the State University of New York, as a Research Support Specialist in the area of weapons of mass destruction. Dragana prepared this paper for Professor Bonventre’s International Law of War & Crime Seminar.
Since the beginning of time, people have been in conflict with each other. The attempt to inflict as much damage on the opponent as possible, in the most cost-effective way, has brought about the creation of weapons of mass destruction. Weapons of mass destruction, as described by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, refer to unconventional weapons, such as nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, which are characterized by the ability to kill and mutilate vast numbers of people, destroying entire cities, and even entire regions.
This paper attempts to determine if there is a possibility to live in a world without weapons of mass destruction, especially focusing on nuclear weapons. The main focus will be placed on the United States and Russia, as they possess the most weapons of mass destruction.
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