A lawsuit against several States with nuclear weapons will be considered in the International court of justice, however high hopes for his satisfaction there.
The other day it became known that the international court of justice in the Hague has accepted the claim of the authorities of the Pacific Republic of the Marshall Islands (land area — 181 sq km) with a population of 56 thousand people against the UK, India and Pakistan. They are accused of violation of the Treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons (NPT) and that have not been able to stop the dangerous arms race. In the chart cases of the International court of justice indicated that the first meeting on the appeal of the Marshall Islands will be held in March this year.
The preliminary hearing because, as stated in the Tribunal, judges should first determine whether their competence the subject of the proceeding in respect of India and Pakistan. In addition, according to the London The Guardian, its objections to the start of the process is preparing to make the United Kingdom. So it is unknown what the outcome of this, in fact, unprecedented claim, which the policy of nuclear States and the Western media prefer not to spread. For obvious reasons.
History reveals interesting details of this case, revealing the inside story of world politics in the nuclear field. Initially the claim of the Marshall Islands to the international court of justice in the Hague was filed in 2014, i.e. two years ago. And filed he was not against three, and against nine nuclear — weapon States officially recognized and, so to speak, of the shadow. The claim it was stated in black and white: the US, Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea (DPRK) and Israel must begin nuclear disarmament until the complete destruction of this O. U. a Separate lawsuit was filed two years ago, the presidential administration and the National administration on nuclear security.
The leitmotif of the application to the court has become quite equitable claim, based on the requirements of the NPT that nuclear disarmament is country every year modernizing their arsenals, assuming in the next decade to spend a trillion dollars.
However, even then, the experts were clear that it is unlikely that the lawsuit will have the judicial perspective and that the action is likely political in nature — to draw the world’s attention to dangerous nuclear line, which was modern civilization in the face of new challenges. (The famous clock on the international journal of physicists, symbolizing the threat of nuclear war, showing now at three minutes before midnight.)
It is known that India and Pakistan, got hold of the greatest weapon on Earth, legally have no obligations — they have not signed the NPT. The same applies to Israel. It is doubtful this list looks marshallian and North Korea, which rattles whenever its mythical “nuclear” weapon when running out of rice for his subjects.
But the most interesting question: why from the list of nine, according to the government of the Marshall Islands, the nuclear States to which they two years ago is pathetic (judging by anti-nuclear print) was sued, dropped as many as six? And among them those who has the most nuclear arsenals of all kinds and calibers. Apparently, the answer to this question should ask the International court of justice in the Hague. Because the Marshall Islands has withdrawn a lawsuit to the “missing” from six nuclear countries. However, while the Republic’s authorities also did not explain to the public.
It would be perfectly understandable and logical if the lawsuit remains, primarily, the United States. Because they were performed decades ago in the Marshall Islands for their nuclear tests, causing and aboriginal people, and the environment irreparable harm. And really, who but US, spending on modernization of nuclear weapons more than all the nuclear States combined.
Judicial review is filed, Marshallese nuclear States has coincided with a jubilee: this year marks 70 years since the American nuclear tests on these Pacific Islands. The first above-ground test was conducted here on 30 June 1946, which was followed by an underwater explosion. And for 12 years — 67 nuclear “tests” on the Islands of Bikini and Enewetak a total capacity of 108 megatons (this is equivalent to more than 7000 “Herosim”). In 1952 on Inevitabe military has tested the first U.S. hydrogen bomb, 10.4 megatons.
But the biggest calamity happened here in 1954, when the island of Bikini, the Americans held a secret test, codenamed “Bravo”. The island was nearly destroyed by hydrogen bomb, a thousand times the power dropped on Hiroshima. The Chapter of nuclear testing forever in the history of mankind as an example of a crime against him. The researchers write that people on the Islands Rongelap and Utrik got burns of the skin, their hair fell out. In the same report by the U.S. Commission on atomic energy for printing it was said that some Americans and Marshallese “received a small dose of radiation. But burns were observed. Everything went fine”.
Perhaps that is why after a few days the inhabitants from the Islands Rongelap and Utrik evacuated. Soon, however, to hide the extent of criminal trials, after the statements of the Americans that these atolls “were only slightly polluted and is completely safe”, the islanders returned to their hearth and home. But not for long. It turned out that there is “a level of radioactivity higher than anywhere else in the world,” so… “the lives of these people on the island will allow you to get the most valuable information about the impact of radiation on human beings”. So informed Washington one scientists from American laboratories. (Reminiscent of the same criminal return of the displaced people in 1987, including pregnant women, some contaminated Belarusian villages after the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power station.)
To save marshallites from total extinction their gene pool has helped scientists around the world. With his famous Manifesto against nuclear weapons were made by albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell. Then, in 1957, more than two thousand American scientists demanded that the authorities immediately stop the test. This is required and islanders. About ten thousand researchers from more than four dozen countries sent a letter of protest to the UN Secretary General.
However, in response, France, Britain (they already conducted their nuclear tests), and Belgium proposed UN draft resolution, which stated cynically that the US had the right to conduct nuclear tests in trust territory “in the interests of peace and security.” And the United States have continued their nuclear “games”. (Marshall Islands was sponsored at the time, were later transferred to the jurisdiction of the UN.)
It is noteworthy that the Soviet Union tested its own atomic bomb in August of 1949, he also participated in the campaign against nuclear tests in the Pacific. And in 1956 the Soviet Union announced a moratorium on such trials, urging everyone to follow his peaceful example. But States and the United Kingdom disagreed, and spent 30 new explosions. United Kingdom — in South Australia and Polynesia, USA in the Marshall Islands. The last “mushroom cloud” hanging over them in 1958.
And 11 years later the U.S. government announced that the island of Bikini is quite safe for travelers and the indigenous population can return. However, the survivors of the nuclear nightmare, didn’t hurry back. And, as it turned out, not in vain. Six years later, the U.S. Department of the interior published a report which stated that on Bikini “radiation levels higher than previously anticipated.” To live in houses still was dangerous, remained a problem with food — some types of local products were forbidden. After this recognition, several families returned to their native land, obsledovanii and found that the level of cesium in their bodies increased by 75%, for the second time were forced to leave their homes.
According to independent international experts, because of the nuclear tests about a thousand inhabitants of the Marshall Islands, died of cancer and other diseases. Only about two thousand people were officially recognized by the authorities of the United States are victims of nuclear testing. They were compensated in excess of $80 million. In 2007, victims with the help of lawyers, non-governmental organizations have made decisions on compensation of a billion dollars, and thousands of other young aboriginal people came under a nuclear deal. However, all this remains on paper money in the US for this.
However, as stated two years ago the authorities of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, they filed in the international court of justice lawsuit against nuclear States not to seek monetary compensation. Their goal is to fight against the proliferation of nuclear weapons and “so no one else on the Earth do not fall back on itself its horrors.”
It is symptomatic, however, that these noble goals in the two years since the initial filing of the claim, not supported by anyone except anti-nuclear NGOs. No state in the world has not joined the statement of the claim suffered from “nuclear genocide” of the islanders, what do they bargained for. It seems that the “thing” is, as predicted two years ago the skeptics would soon be completely destroyed not without the help of influential defendants in the equitable international Hague court of justice.
