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2000 BYU L. Rev. 1413 (2000)
Nuclear Weapons, Ethics, Morals, and Law

handle is hein.journals/byulr2000 and id is 1423 raw text is: Nuclear Weapons, Ethics, Morals, and Law Jonathan Granoff Bullets kill men, but atomic bombs kill cities. A tank is a defense against a bullet, but there is no defense against a weapon that can de- stroy civilization.... Our defense is law and order.1 I. INTRODUCTION The nuclear weapons age began at 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time, July 16, 1945, when the first atom bomb was tested in a por- tion of the bleak barren Alamogordo bombing range in the New Mexico desert chillingly named Jornado de Muerto (Journey of Death).2 After the thunderous roar of the shock wave, a huge pillar of smoke rose 30,000 feet, creating the first icon of the nuclear age-the fearsome mushroom cloud. A blast of energy of unprece- dented3 destructive magnitude bathed the surrounding mountain * United Nations Representative of Lawyers Alliance for World Security, Chair, American Bar Association Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament, CEO of Global Security Institute. A shorter version of this paper was presented to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Prepcom of 1999 and The Hague Appeal for Peace. It was drafted with the assistance of consultations with several Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) focusing on arms control, values, and disarmament, induding NGO Committee on Disarmament, Temple of Under- standing, Pax Christi International, Franciscans International, Interfaith Center of New York, State of the World Forum, Lawyers Alliance for World Security, Global Security Institute, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, and especially Myrna Penna of the World Conference of Religion and Peace. Special thanks are extended to Senator Alan Cranston, Professor Lois Sohn, Ambas- sador Richard Butler, John Burroughs, Professor Michael Goldsmith, Ambassador Jonathan Dean, Senator Douglas Roche, O.C., Ambassador Thomas Graham, and Jeanne Boardman for their selfless advice. 1. THE ExPANDED QUOTABLE EINSTEIN 177 (Alice Calaprice ed., 2000). 2. See Los ALAAiOs 32 (Los Alamos Historical Society ed., 1999). 3. See id. at 53. Brigadier General T.F. Farrell described the moment as follows: The effects could well be called unprecedented, magnificent, beautiful, stupendous, and terrifaing. No man-made phenomenon of such tremendous power had ever oc- curred before. The lighting effects beggared description. The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun. It was golden, purple, violet, gray and blue. It lighted every peak, crevasse and ridge of the nearby mountain range with a darity and beauty that cannot be described but 1413

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