num_pages: 210
description: Modern warfare has not only intensified old moral issues but raised new ones. Nuclear «Just War» Thinking Today is a study in «just war» Christian thought about the moral problems of nuclear war and deterrence. Dr. Laarman describes and evaluates the statements of theologians, philosophers, church leaders, and others from the 1950's to 1981. He focuses on authors who represent three «nuclear pacifists» who on moral grounds call for unilateral nuclear disarmament; «counterfore» advocates such as Paul Ramsey who claim that some types of nuclear war and deterrence can be justified; and those who think that a nuclear «bluff» can be justified for the sake of deterrence. Dr. Laarman concludes with an analysis of the crisis which nuclear weapons have posed for the tradition of just war thought.
language: English
title: Nuclear Pacifism: «Just War» Thinking Today
titlecomplete: Nuclear Pacifism: «Just War» Thinking Today (American University Studies)
publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers