Groups like the Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy63 and the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA)64 are engaged in making the “everyday life” of the world’s women and men important to international law in the struggle “of the human against the technological superhumanness of the modern”.65 These groups remind us of the alienation and dangers of our era. As lawyers, we must recognize that the law is purposive and instrumental, that it serves policies. We do not live in an ivory tower of pure law. With nuclear weapons our principal function must be to help achieve real limitations on nuclear weapons and their eventual elimination by formulating that preferred outcome not only in laws, but also in goals, purposes, interests and social values of the peoples of the world.