Prof's Choice
• Harvard Nuclear Study Group (Albert Carnesdale, at al.), Living withNuclear Weapons (Bantam, 1983). Already out of date, but still the clearest and least biased (but not unbiased) source for factual background on most aspects of nuclear deterrence.
• United States Catholic Bishops, The Challenge of Peace (United States Catholic Conference, 1983). An important but sketchy statement of widely held positions on both conventional war and nuclear deterrence.
• John Finnis, Joseph Boyle, and Germain Grisez, Nuclear Deterrence,Morality, and Realism (Oxford University Press, 1987). A much more detailed version of the argument from intentions against nuclear deterrence by three Catholics.
• Douglas Lackey, Moral Principlesand Nuclear Weapons (Rowman and Allanhel, 1984). A lively book that includes one of the strongest arguments from consequences against nuclear deterrence, as well as supporting arguments based on human rights and the concept of justice.
• Gregory Kavka, Moral Paradoxesof Nuclear Deterrence (Cambridge University Press, 1987). A defense of limited nuclear deterrence. Difficult but well worth the effort. This book includes the best critique of the argument from intentions and the best argument from consequences for nuclear deterrence, and insightful discussions of self-defense, the SDI, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• Douglas Lackey, editor, Ethics andStrategic Defense (Wadsworth, 1989). A collection of short essays by philosophers and strategists for and against the morality of star wars.
• Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, MoralDilemmas (Basil Blackwell, 1988). An argument that some moral conflicts cannot be resolved, and a discussion of why this is important in war and elsewhere.
