In its written statement submitted to the ICJ in the Nuclear Weapons case in 1995, the Marshall Islands stated that “any use of nuclear weapons violates the laws of war including the Geneva and Hague Conventions and the United Nations Charter. Such laws prohibit … the use of indiscriminate weapons.” 

In its oral pleadings before the ICJ in the Nuclear Weapons case in 1995, the Marshall Islands stated: “Nuclear weapons, by their nature, are indiscriminate in their effects – and very seriously so.”