Nuclear Deterrence and Moral Restraint: Critical Choices for American Strategy (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)

This important collection of essays brings together the work of prominent philosophers, political scientists, policy analysts, and defense consultants. It takes as its point of departure two central tendencies in current nuclear strategy: mutual assured destruction and nuclear utilization target selections. The essays examine and assess the arguments for these and other positions on the spectrum of policy options, and elaborate on the implications of this analysis for strategic policy and for the further pursuit of research into SDI and other matters. Having It Both Ways: The Gradual Wrong Turn In American Strategy / Henry Shue -- Finite Counterforce / David Lewis -- Deterrence And The Moral Use Of Nuclear Weapons / Robert E. Foelber -- Escaping From The Bomb: Immoral Deterrence And The Problem Of Extrication / C.a.j. Coady -- The Necessary Moral Hypocrisy Of The Slide Into Mutual Assured Destruction / George H. Quester -- Finite Deterrence / Harold A. Feiveson -- Defending Europe: Toward A Stable Conventional Deterrent / Lutz Unterseher -- The Case For Depolying Strategic Defenses / Leon Sloss -- Morality, The Sdi, And Limited Nuclear War / Steven Lee. Edited By Henry Shue. Includes Bibliographical References. 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). The essays examine and assess the arguments for these and other positions on the spectrum of policy options, and elaborate the implications of this analysis for strategic policy and for the further pursuit of research into SDI, and other matters To domesticate or not to domesticate is, I think, the question about nuclear weapons.