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Seventy Years of Nuclearism

Hosted by the Department of Law

Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE

Speakers

Professor Ruth Buchanan

Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Professor Matthew Craven

Professor of International Law, School of Law, SOAS

Professor Sundhya Pahuja

Director of Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Law School, University of Melbourne

Chair

Professor Gerry Simpson

Professor of Public International Law, Department of Law, LSE

Ruth Buchanan, Matt Craven and Sundhya Pahuja in a conversation chaired by Gerry Simpson.

2019 marks the 70th anniversary of Mutually Assured Destruction. On the 29th August 1949, the United States and the USSR faced each other with weapons capable of ending human life. In fact, the Soviet arsenal alone was capable of killing 22,000 million people. But there were only around 4,000 million to kill. This awful shadow, or what Elaine Scarry called a “vast structure of cruelty”, has been part of our lives since then. 

This instalment of the Cold War International Law project will explore the implications of nuclearism for international law, for planetary survival and for cold wars, old and new.

LSE Law (@lselaw) is an integral part of the School's mission, plays a major role in policy debates and in the education of lawyers and law teachers from around the world.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSELawNuclearism

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