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 | | Morality, Prudence, and Nuclear Weapons (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) by Steven P. Lee ISBN-10: 9780521382724 ISBN-10: 0-521-38272-6 ISBN-13: 9780521382724 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-38272-4 Hardcover 1993-03-26 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description With the passing of the Cold War, a chapter in the history of nuclear deterrence has come to an end. Nuclear weapons remain, however, and nuclear deterrence will again be practiced. Rather than simply assume that the policy of deterrence has worked we need to learn the proper lessons from history in order to ensure that its mistakes are not repeated. Professor Lee furnishes us with the kind of analysis that will enable us to learn those lessons. This book is the first post Cold War assessment of nuclear deterrence. It provides a comprehensive normative understanding of nuclear deterrence policy, examining both its ethical and strategic dimensions. The book poses the question: What kind of nuclear policy, if any, deserves both moral and prudential endorsement? | ||
Book Description With the passing of the Cold War, a chapter in the history of nuclear deterrence has come to an end. Rather than simply assume that the policy of deterrence has worked, we need to learn the proper lessons from history in order to ensure that its mistakes are not repeated. This book is the first post Cold War assessment. | ||
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The best treatment of the subject. This is a difficult book for a lay reader to follow, but it is the best account of the moral issues surrounding nuclear weapons. Steven Lee, a professor of philosophy at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, did an outstanding job in explaining in great detail the moral paradoxes and puzzles involving nuclear weapons. I wish this book would have been published in the early 1980s, in the height of the Cold War, the period when its author got the impulse and momentum for his project. Ironically, many of the arguments lost their political relevancy after the Cold War. | ||