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Objections to Nuclear Defence - Philosophers on Deterrence (Hardcover)
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Objections to Nuclear Defence - Philosophers on Deterrence (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Nuclear Security
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Moral and political questions are vitally relevant to the issue of
survival in the nuclear age. Ethics has much to teach us about the
meaning of national defence and civic responsibility in the nuclear
state. For instance, those in NATO who argue for increased spending
on such weapons do so with the intention of defending the values of
the West. They must therefore be absolutely sure that they are not
- as the contributors to this volume, originally published in 1984,
powerfully suggest - undermining or destroying those values by the
very means they adopt to preserve them. With the continued success
of nuclear deterrence itself in question, responsible citizens feel
an urgent need to assess the clash between personal doubts,
cherished principles and their governments' loudly voiced moral
certainties. In Objections to Nuclear Defence, professional
philosophers of widely varying persuasions provide new analyses of
these problems. They spell out clearly and vividly the moral and
political objections - objections to the concrete nuclear policies
of the Western governments today. Often impassioned but always
rational, the book will be of special interest to students of
international affairs, peace studies and applied philosophy as well
as to the general reader who is trying to choose between political
parties in Europe or North America.
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