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After the Cold War: Questioning the Morality of Nuclear Deterrence
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This is a text on the traditional questions of nuclear deterrence and the unconventional answers suggested by the emerging new world order. These widely-ranging essays by scholars, policymakers and moral philosophers present rival ideas about the morality of alternative means for preserving mutual security as the world moves beyond the Cold War.

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AFTER THE COLD WAR

First published in 1991 by Westview Press

Published in 2021 by Routledge

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

After the cold war : questioning the morality of nuclear deterrence /
edited by Charles W. Kegley, Jr., and Kenneth L. Schwab.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-8133-8063-4ISBN 0-8133-8064-2 (pbk.)

1. Nuclear warfareMoral and ethical aspectsCongresses.
2. Deterrence (Strategy)Moral and ethical aspectsCongresses.

World politics1985-1995Congresses. I. Kegley, Charles W., Jr.

II. Schwab, Kenneth L.

U263.A29 1991

172.422dc20

90-44539
CIP

ISBN 13: 978-0-3670-1592-3 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-3671-6579-6 (pbk)

DOI: 10.4324/9780429045783

For our children

Kempten L. Schwab

Carlton L. Schwab

Christopher L. Schwab

Suzanne Taylor Mitchell

For whom we wish to nurture a world free of the peril of nuclear annihilation

Contents

Charles W. Kegley, Jr., and Kenneth L. Schwab

PART I
THE VIEWS OF POLICYMAKERS AND STRATEGIC THEORISTS

2 Military Power and the Passing Cold War

Richard Perle

3 What Stakes Would Justify the Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction?

Sir Hugh Beach

4 Now More Than Ever: No First Use

Paul C. Warnke

PART II
THE VIEWS OF POLICY ANALYSTS AND PEACE RESEARCHERS

5 Deterrence, Nuclear Weapons, Morality, and War

John Mueller

6 What Power Do Nuclear Weapons Give Their Possessors? The Basic Instability of Deterrence

Kenneth E. Boulding

7 MAD (Minimum Assured Deterrence) Is Still the Moral Position

Paul M. Kattenburg

8 An Acceptable Role for Nuclear Weapons?

Bruce Martin Russett

PART III
THE VIEWS OF MORAL PHILOSOPHERS AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS

9 Ordering Our Destiny: Politics, Strategy, and Ethics

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin

10 From Pacifism to Apocalyptic Visions: Religious Perspectives on Nuclear Deterrence

Janice Love

11 Can Contemporary War Be Just? Elements in the Moral Debate

James Turner Johnson

PART IV
NEW THINKING ABOUT OLD QUESTIONS

12 On the Scholarly Study of Nuclear Deterrence: Historical Roots of the New Discourse

Steven W. Hook and William A. Clark

13 The Post-Cold War Context: The Contributors Dialogue in Perspective

Jonathan Davidson

References

Part I The Views of Policymakers and Strategic Theorists
1. 2 Military Power and the Passing Cold War
2. 3 What Stakes Would Justify the Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction?
3. 4 Now More Than Ever: No First Use
Part II The Views of Policy Analysts and Peace Researchers
1. 5 Deterrence, Nuclear Weapons, Morality, and War
2. 6 What Power Do Nuclear Weapons Give Their Possessors? The Basic Instability of Deterrence
3. 7 MAD (Minimum Assured Deterrence) Is Still the Moral Position
4. 8 An Acceptable Role for Nuclear Weapons?
Part III The Views of Moral Philosophers and Religious Leaders
1. 9 Ordering Our Destiny: Politics, Strategy, and Ethics
2. 10 From Pacifism to Apocalyptic Visions: Religious Perspectives on Nuclear Deterrence
3. 11 Can Contemporary War Be Just? Elements in the Moral Debate
Part IV New Thinking About Old Questions
1. 12 On the Scholarly Study of Nuclear Deterrence: Historical Roots of the New Discourse
2. 13 The Post-Cold War Context: The Contributors Dialogue in Perspective
References

Guide

References

We know today that ideas, not armaments, will shape our lasting prospects for peace; that the conduct of our foreign policy will advance no faster than the curriculum of our classrooms; that the knowledge of our citizens is one treasure which grows only when it is shared.

President Lyndon B. Johnson

The revolutionary year 1989 stands as a true historical watershed. Communisms collapse in Eastern Europe, the fragmentation of the Warsaw Pact (and, potentially, the Soviet Union itself), the progress in arms control, and the outbreak of peace generally seemed, to many, to set the stage for a new era of world politics. What began with the hope to move beyond the Cold War culminated in awareness that a new international systemcontrary to most predictions and to the surprise of nearly all observershad become a reality.

Change poses both promise and peril. What the emergent new global architecture will mean for world politics is highly uncertain. Particularly problematic among the many questions that the post-postwar era presents is the most pressing question of our time: Will the peace among the great powers that has continued without interruption since 1945 persist in the new global atmosphere created by these rapidly converging developments? It is the purpose of After the Cold War to address the fundamental strategic issues presented by the new global environment and to take a critical look at the morality and efficacy of that core pillar of peacenuclear deterrencein the new geopolitical context.

As we enter this new era, it is imperative to reconsider the superpowers military doctrines, the moral dilemmas they pose, and how the extraordinary global changes may affect the prospects for nuclear deterrence and, ultimately, abiding peace. The questions of whether deterrence will be a cure or a curse and whether a system that requires mass annihilation for defense remains morally defensible are presently approached from widely disparate vantage points.

At the risk of oversimplification, three categories of observers may be distinguished: (1) policymakers and strategic theorists, (2) policy analysts and peace researchers, and (3) moral philosophers, religious leaders, and peace activists. Each of these groups is actively engaged in the continuing debate about nuclear weapons, and their divergent perspectives enlarge awareness of the issues to be confronted. But rarely have their views been brought together and their conclusions exposed for critical comparison. That need is more urgent than ever, because the end of the Cold War does not end the urgent need to find a basis for preventing nuclear war. The new global circumstances now require, more than ever, reexamination of conventional wisdom and established policy prescriptions.

To cover comprehensively the full range of opinion concerning these complex issues (and expose the diversity of opinion within each community of commentators) is well beyond the reach of a single volume. But a representative sample of thought on this subject by leading authorities within each school is possible, and perusal of their competing viewpoints can illuminate the similarities and differences within and across the three groups. It is the purpose of

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