Ethics and weapons of mass destruction: religious and secular perspectives

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Tables and figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Sohail H. Hashmi and Steven P. Lee 1. Weapons of mass destruction: a brief overview Susan B. Martin 2. The international law concerning weapons of mass destruction Paul C. Szasz Part I. The Original Debate: 3. Realist perspectives on ethical norms and weapons of mass destruction Scott D. Sagan 4. Realism and weapons of mass destruction: a consequentialist analysis Susan B. Martin 5. Natural law and weapons of mass destruction C. A. J. Coady 6. War and indeterminacy in natural law thinking John Langan S.J. 7. Liberalism: the impossibility of justifying weapons of mass destruction Henry Shue 8. A liberal perspective on deterrence and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction Michael Walzer 9. Christianity and weapons of mass destruction Nigel Biggar 10. Christian apocalypticism and weapons of mass destruction Martin L. Cook Part II. Expanding the Conversation: 11. Buddhist perspectives on weapons of mass destruction David W. Chappell 12. Buddhism and weapons of mass destruction: an oxymoron? Donald K. Swearer 13. Confucianism and weapons of mass destruction Julia Ching 14. 'Heaven's Mandate' and the concept of war in early Confucianism Philip J. Ivanhoe 15. Hinduism and the ethics of weapons of mass destruction Katherine K. Young 16. Hinduism and weapons of mass destruction: pacifist, prudential and political Kanti Bajpai 17. Islamic ethics and weapons of mass destruction: an argument for nonproliferation Sohail H. Hashmi 18. 'Do not violate the limit': three issues in Islamic thinking on weapons of mass destruction John Kelsay 19. Judaism, war and weapons of mass destruction Reuven Kimelman 20. Between the Bible and the Holocaust: three sources for Jewish perspectives on mass destruction Joseph E. David Part III. Critical Perspectives: 21. A feminist ethical perspective on weapons of mass destruction Carol Cohn and Sara Ruddick 22. A pragmatist feminist approach to the ethics of weapons of mass destruction Lucinda Joy Peach 23. Pacifism and weapons of mass destruction Robert L. Holmes 24. Pacifism and weapons of mass destruction: the challenge of peace Duane L. Cady 25. Weapons of mass destruction and the limits of moral understanding: a comparative essay Steven P. Lee Contributors Index.