NUKES CANNOT DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS
FROM ENEMY COMBATANTS LIKE SOLDIERS CAN.
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 The first and most obvious thing has, of course, to do with the weapons, with the combination of the massiveness and the necessary indiscriminancy of the destructiveness that would result. There would be no identifiable battlegrounds or individuals doing battle - there could not be any, even residual, descriptive sense to a differentiation between combatants and noncombatants or between combat zones and military bases, on the one hand, and hospitals, schools, places of worship, and homes, on the other.
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