NUCLEAR DETERRENCE IS COUNTERINTUITIVE TO CREATING PEACE. Nuclear Arms as a Philosophical and Moral Issue. Robert P. Churchill Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 469, Nuclear Armament and Disarmament (Sep, 1983), pp. 46-57. Published by Sage Publications, Inc. in association with the American Academy of Political and Social Science Stable URL http://www.jstor.org/stable/1044534 By exchanging immoral threats, the superpower players merely push the real problems into the background, taking the position that no solution at all is preferable to the risk of escalating a conflict that could lead to a nuclear exchange. In fact nuclear deterrence may well be self-defeating over the long run. Although real security no longer exists, our national security managers relentlessly seek to instill a sense of security in us by pursuing actions that objectively increase the danger they build more and deadlier weapons
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