Objections to nuclear defence : philosophers on deterrence / edited by Nigel Blake & Kay Pole.

Date:
1984
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Also known as

Philosophers on deterrence

Publication/Creation

London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.

Physical description

x, 187 pages ; 22 cm

Related material

This item was donated as part of the Godfrey Boyle archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference PP/GBO https://wellcomecollection.org/works/t5pbagvp

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

'Better dead than red' / Anthony Kenny -- Nuclear warfare / Michael Dummett -- Nuclear deterrence and the use of just war doctrine / Roger Ruston -- The politics of truth. [Experts] and laypeople in the nuclear debate / John Krige -- Human survival / Kate Soper -- Morality, scepticism and the nuclear arms race / Bernard Williams -- Morality and survival in the nuclear age / Susan Khin Zaw -- The Great Wall of China. Notes on ideology / Rip Bulkeley -- Secrecy, expertise and democracy / Andrew Belsey.

Notes

Copy 1. Donor: Godfrey Boyle.

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  • 0710202490
  • 9780710202499