Introduction; PART I: JUST WAR AND ITS ENEMIES: Should war be
humanized?; Weapons, targets, and the law; New uses for an old
theory; The rules of just war; Non-combatant immunity and its
critics; LESSONS OF THE PAST 1: APPEASEMENT: The lesson and its
teachers; Arms and security; Appeasement or Armegeddon?; The
anti-Soviet element; LESSONS OF THE PAST 2: STRATEGIC BOMBING: From
1917 to 1939: The theory; The moral background; From 1939 to 1945:
The
practice; The official version; Reprisals in ethics and law;
conclusions; PART II: WEAPON FOR A FIRST CLASS NATION, 1941-1952:
The decisive weapon; The bomb is made and used; Labour inherits
the
bomb; Strategic priorities; The importance of the Soviet threat -
and the American presence; The British bomb becomes a reality; The
silence of the moralists; JOINING THE 'H-CLUB', 1953-1956: The year
of the H-bomb; Massive retaliation and tactical nuclear weapons in
Europe; Nuclear revisionism: graduated deterrence; conclusions;
DETERRENCE ON THE CHEAP, 1957-1964: The new defence policy of 1957;
Deterrence or defence?; A say in the end of the world: Britain's
independent
contribution; Macmillan and the test ban; The question of strategy;
The symbolic value of possession; Labour and unilateralism;
Unacceptable damage: How Polaris would be used; Moral critique,
1957-1964;
conclusions; POLARIS AND DETENTE, 1965-1976: The changing outlook
on defence; Flexible response; Detente and 'The continuing threat';
American actions - British responsibilities; Would Polaris always
get through?; conclusions; CRISIS OVER MODERNIZATION, 1977-1987:
The new insecurity; Long range theatre nuclear weapons; Replacing
Polaris; The INF agreement; The new nuclear debate; conclusions;
PART III: THE ETHICS OF FLEXIBLE RESPONSE: Preventing war; The
question of limits; Two kinds
of deterrence; The limit of limits; The control of nuclear war;
conclusions; CONCLUSIONS.
former Lecturer in Ethics and Moral Theology at Blackfriars, Oxford.
'an absorbing account of British nuclear weapons policy ... All
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reading this book.' Labour Research
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which analyses the course of the British nuclear debate through the
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