Nuclear Deterrence and Moral Restraint
Critical Choices for American Strategy

This important collection of essays brings together the work of prominent philosophers, political scientists, policy analysts, and defence consultants.

Henry Shue (Edited by)

9780521380638, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 September 1989

448 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.83 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ]