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Recent Strategic Developments: A Critical Overview From A Just War Perspective

Recent Strategic Developments: A Critical Overview From A Just War Perspective Abstract Beginning with a sketch of the major moral ideas contained in just war tradition, this essay applies them to three controverted issues in contemporary military debate: nuclear deterrence strategy, the strategic defense initiative, and the possibility of building and deploying fractional megatonnage nuclear weapons on delivery vehicles of extremely high accuracy. It is argued that, in terms of the criteria of just war tradition, deterrence in its present form poses grave moral problems. The two new weapons systems are then examined in terms of whether, by just war criteria, they represent more moral means of defense than contemporary nuclear deterrence. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Analyse & Kritik de Gruyter

Recent Strategic Developments: A Critical Overview From A Just War Perspective

Analyse & Kritik , Volume 9 – May 1, 1987

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Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
Copyright © 1987 by the
ISSN
0171-5860
eISSN
2365-9858
DOI
10.1515/auk-1987-1-207
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Abstract

Abstract Beginning with a sketch of the major moral ideas contained in just war tradition, this essay applies them to three controverted issues in contemporary military debate: nuclear deterrence strategy, the strategic defense initiative, and the possibility of building and deploying fractional megatonnage nuclear weapons on delivery vehicles of extremely high accuracy. It is argued that, in terms of the criteria of just war tradition, deterrence in its present form poses grave moral problems. The two new weapons systems are then examined in terms of whether, by just war criteria, they represent more moral means of defense than contemporary nuclear deterrence.

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Analyse & Kritikde Gruyter

Published: May 1, 1987

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