Abstract
Abstract The moral case against the SDI, as developed in the 1983 and 1988 publications by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the 1986 publication of the United Methodist Bishops, is built on the secular politico‐strategic arguments against the SDI. These arguments involve negative judgments about SDI's technical feasibility, its likely cost, the Soviet response, and SDI's effect on deterrence stability and arms control negotiations. Each of the secular judgments against the SDI adopted by the bishops is questionable. If alternative politico‐military judgments that are equally reasonable, but are sympathetic to the SDI, had been the basis of the bishops’ moral analyses, their methodology would have led to conclusions supportive of the SDI.
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