Title: Ethics in the nuclear age :
Authors: Whitmore, Todd,
Date: 1989
Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press,
Physical description: x, 240 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: U
Contents: Ethics and strategy : the views of selected strategists / J. Bryan Hehir -- The morality of nuclear deterrence : obstacles on the road to coherence / Richard B. Miller -- Ethics in distress : can there be just wars in the nuclear age? / David Hollenbach -- Bluff or revenge : the watershed in democratic deterrence awareness / John Howard Yoder -- Deterrence, defense, or war-fighting? : a just-war analysis of some recent strategic developments / James Turner Johnson -- Problems of method and moral theory in the U.S. and German Catholic pastoral letters on peace : a comparative explanation / John Langan, S.J. -- Nuclear weapons and peace : political challenge and theological controversy in West German Protestantism / Trutz Rendtorff -- Peacemaking as an ethical category : the convergence of pacifism and just war / Duane K. Friesen -- Reason and authority in church social documents : the case for plausibility and coherence / Todd Whitmore.
Notes: "This collection of essays is the outgrowth of a two-year workshop seminar, the Colloquium on Religion and World Affairs, held at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago" -- Pref.
Subject headings (LCSH): Deterrence (Strategy)--Moral and ethical aspects.; Deterrence (Strategy)--Religious aspects--Christianity.; Nuclear warfare--Moral and ethical aspects.; Nuclear warfare--Religious aspects--Christianity.