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Title The Apocalyptic premise : nuclear arms debated : thirty-one essays by statesmen, scholars, religious leaders, and journalists / edited by Ernest W. Lefever and E. Stephen Hunt.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Ethics and Public Policy Center, [1982]
©1982

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 Moore Stacks  UF767 .A528 1982    Available  ---
Description xi, 417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 401-408.
Note Includes index.
Contents Nuclear arms and the uses of fear / the editors -- pt. 1. Arms control issues: Nuclear weapons and the Atlantic Alliance / McGeorge Bundy, George F. Kennan, Robert S. McNamara, Gerard K. Smith -- Nuclear weapons and the preservation of peace / Karl Kaiser, Georg Leber, Alois Mertes, Franz-Josef Schulze -- Defending Europe without the bomb / the editors of 'The economist' -- Western Europe needs a nuclear option / Edward N. Luttwak -- A global freeze on nuclear weapons / Edward M. Kennedy -- In defense of deterrence / Charles Krauthammer -- 'No first use' requires a conventional build-up / Irving Kristol -- pt. 2. Peace movement: Revive the Ban-the-bomb movement / Sidney Lens -- Ban whose bomb? / William E. Griffith -- KGB's magical war for 'peace' / John Barron -- Counterfeit peacemakers / Rael Jean Isaac and Erich Isaac -- Soviet role in the peace movement / Vladimir Bukovsky -- Moscow's response to U.S. 'saber-rattling' / Boris Ponomarev -- Why peace movements fail / James Clotfelter -- pt. 3. Apocalyptic premise: Fate of the Earth / Jonathan Schell -- Apocalyptic panic is no help / Herman Kahn -- Nuclear holocaust in perspective / Michael Kinsley -- Recovery from nuclear attack / Jack C. Greene -- pt. 4. Churches and the nuclear arms: Nuclear morality / George F. Will -- Case for nuclear pacifism / Bishop Roger Mahony -- Church's view on nuclear arms / Bishop John J. O'Connor -- Peace bishops / Michael Novak -- Military balance is essential to peace / Central Committee of german Catholics -- Deterrence is morally acceptable / Pope John Paul II -- Moral imperative of nuclear disarmament / four American Protestant bodies -- An ethic of purity vs. an ethic of responsibility / Wolfhart Pannenberg -- pt. 5. Official views: Peace, tyranny, and arms control / Ronald Reagan -- Strategy, deterrence, and arms control / Caspar W. Weinberger -- Highlights of U.S. arms control policy / Department of State -- Soviet approach to arms control / Leonid Brezhnev -- Peace with freedom and justice / Margaret Thatcher.
Subject Nuclear warfare -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Nuclear warfare -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Nuclear warfare -- Religious aspects.
Nuclear warfare -- Religious aspects.
Antinuclear movement.
Antinuclear movement.
United States -- Military policy.
United States.
Military policy.
Europe -- Defenses.
Europe.
United States -- Military policy -- Religious aspects.
Bewapening.
Kernwapens.
Defenses.
Vredesbeweging.
MILITARY POLICY.
UNITED STATES.
NUCLEAR WAR.
PEACE MOVEMENTS.
RELIGIOUS ASPECTS.
DETERRENCE.
Added Author Lefever, Ernest W.
Hunt, E. Stephen, 1948-
Ethics and Public Policy Center (Washington, D.C.)
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