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Book SynopsisThe threat to the survival of humankind posed by nuclear weapons has been a frightening and essential focus of public debate for the last four decades and must continue to be so if we are to avoid destroying ourselves and the natural world around us. One unfortunate result of preoccupation with the nuclear threat, however, has been a new kind of "r
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. ix*PREFACE, pg. xi*INTRODUCTION, pg. 3*ONE. Violence and the Perspective of Morality, pg. 19*Two. Political Realism: The Challenge to Morality in International Affairs, pg. 50*THREE. Reason of State, Military Necessity, and Domestic Security, pg. 83*FOUR. St. Augustine on the Justification of War, pg. 114*FIVE. Can War Be Morally Justified? The Just War Theory, pg. 146*Six. The Killing of Innocent Persons in Wartime, pg. 183*SEVEN. Nuclear Deterrence: The Illusion of Security, pg. 214*EIGHT. The Alternative to War, pg. 260*SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 297*INDEX, pg. 303
