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NUCLEAR WAR VIOLATES SOVEREIGNTY
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| NUCLEAR WAR VIOLATES SOVEREIGNTY. War, Nuclear War, and Nuclear Deterrence Some Conceptual and Moral Issues. Richard Wasserstrom. Ethics, Vol. 95, No. 3, Special Issue Symposium on Ethics and Nuclear Deterrence (Apr, 1985), pp. 424-444. Published by The University of Chicago Press. Stable URL http://www.jstor.org/stable/2381030 A second, related thing also has to do with the spatial scale. We take for granted in our thinking about war that countries and national boundaries remain in place. In war a country's borders can, of course, be crossed by the armed forces of another, and those countries not at war can be affected by a war going on elsewhere. But once a war begins, the countries not at war can decide whether they will go to war too and countries at war can choose whether or not to respect national boundaries and keep the war out of uninvolved or neutral countries. Nuclear war is different. Quite apart from the unknown changes in the biosphere that might well be wrought by nuclear explosions, it is apparent that nuclear radiation and fallout are not, and cannot be, respecters of national boundaries, confined in their direct and lethal effects to the inhabitants of the countries engaged in nuclear war. Whether the countries engaging in nuclear war intend it or not, nuclear war in part takes place wherever the winds of that war happen to be blowing at that time. 10NFL1-Nuclear Weapons Page 129 of 199 www.victorybriefs.com 10NFL1-Nuclear Weapons Page 130 of 199 www.victorybriefs.com Download 1.23 Mb. Share with your friends:
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