Nuclear Deterrence and Moral Restraint - Critical Choices for American Strategy

Klappentext This important collection of essays brings together the work of prominent philosophers! political scientists! policy analysts! and defence consultants. Zusammenfassung This important collection of essays brings together the work of prominent philosophers! political scientists! policy analysts! and defence consultants. It takes as its point of departure two central tendencies in current nuclear strategy: mutual assured destruction (MAD) and nuclear utilization target selections (NUTS). Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Henry Shue; 1. Having it both ways: the gradual wrong turn in American strategy Henry Shue; 2. Finite counterforce David Lewis; 3. Deterrence and the moral use of nuclear weapons Robert E. Foelber; 4. Escaping from the bomb: immoral deterrence and the problem of extrication C. A. J. Coady; 5. The necessary moral hypocrisy of the slide into mutual assured destruction George H. Quester; 6. Finite deterrence Harold A. Feiveson; 7. Defending Europe: toward a stable conventional deterrent Lutz Unterseher; 8. The case for deploying strategic defenses Leon Sloss; 9. Morality, the SDI and limited nuclear war Steven Lee.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Shue
• Assisted by: Shue Henry (Editor), Douglas MacLean (Editor), Henry Shue (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.1989
• EAN: 9780521389679
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38967-9
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education