A COMMITMENT TO DETERRENCE IS A COMMITMENT TO PROLIFERATION. Missiles and Morals A Utilitarian Look at Nuclear Deterrence. Douglas P. Lackey. Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Summer, 1982), pp. 189-231. Published by Blackwell Publishing. Stable URL http://www.jstor.org/stable/2264898 To these dangers we should add the consideration that the American argument, "the United States must have the bomb if the Soviet Union has one" is replicable by every nation state, producing pressure for proliferation which in turn increases the chance of war, and the consideration that no degree of threat can deter a nuclear terrorist who prefers to be dead rather than blue, or red, or green, and who has built his bomb with the help of weapons technology developed by states that are sworn "to deterrence only"
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