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| | Commentary Magazine - Nuclear Ethics, by Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | ...Joseph Nye, who is director of the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, begins by invoking the familiar apocalyptic imagery of recent years, in particular the notion that an all-out nuclear war might "destroy God's Creation," as the Catholic bishops absurdly put it... |
 | | ...Nye also recognizes a mixed form, cosmopolitan moralism, shared on the one hand by nuclear abolitionists like Jonathan Schell, who demand disarmament, unilateral if necessary, in what they wrongly believe is the common interest of mankind, and on the other hand by neointerventionists like Charles Krauthammer, who call for U.S... |
 | | ...Nye devotes a disparaging page-and-a-half to SDI, assuming that the only good defense is a leakproof defense, and ignoring the Soviets' own strategicdefense effort without which SDI would, indeed, be both politically and morally problematic... |
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