Multiple choice

In the 1996 advisory opinion of the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict, the International Court of Justice held that the threat or use of nuclear weapons

  1. is legal under any circumstances they are resorted to in self-defence

  2. is illegal under any circumstances

  3. is legal if a state resorts to these weapons when it feels that its very survival is at stake, provided that such use of the weapons conforms 10 rules relating to self-defence and international humanitarian law

  4. is legal if resorted to against a state, which has persistently committed gross violations of human rights over its citizens
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Explanation

(2) In the 1996 advisory opinion of the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict, the International Court of Justice held that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is illegal under any circumstances.

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