NUKES ARENʼT ABLE TO ADEQUATE SECURE A COUNTRY LIKE CONVENTIONAL MILITARY FORCES. 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 There is no necessary connection between nuclear strength and conventional weakness, but in a world of limited resources the development of strategic forces has twisted military budgets in favor of high technology, and the result has been complicated guns that won't shoot and complicated planes that can't fly The idea that the nation's "first line" of defense consists of radar towers and missiles rather than men on the battlefield must inevitably weaken the morale of the Army and the Marines. However plausible it may have seemed to John Foster Dulles, there is little support now for the view that nuclear threats can substitute in anyway for the painful sacrifices of conventional war.
