The Apocalyptic premise : nuclear arms debated : thirty-one essays by statesmen, scholars, religious leaders, and journalists / edited by Ernest W. Lefever and E. Stephen Hunt.

Contributor Lefever, Ernest W.

Imprint:Washington, D.C. : Ethics and Public Policy Center, c1982.

Descriptionxi, 417 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note:Nuclear arms and the uses of fear / the editors -- PART ONE: ARMS CONTROL ISSUES: Nuclear weapons and the Atlantic Alliance / McGeorge Bundy, George F. Kennan, Robert S. McNamara, Gerard K. Smith -- Nuclear weapons and the preservation of peace / Karl Kaiser, Georg Leber, Alois Mertes, Franz-Josef Schulze -- Defending Europe without the bomb / the editors of The Economist -- Western Europe needs a nuclear option / Edward N. Luttwak -- A global freeze on nuclear weapons / Edward M. Kennedy -- In defense of deterrence / Charles Krauthammer -- "No first use" requires a conventional build-up / Irving Kristol -- PART TWO: THE PEACE MOVEMENT: Revive the ban-the-bomb movement / Sidney Lens -- Ban whose bomb? / William E. Griffith -- The KGB's magical war for "peace" / John Barron -- The counterfeit peacemakers / Rael Jean Isaac, Erich Isaac -- The Soviet role in the peace movement / Vladimir Bukovsky -- Moscow's response to U.S. "saber-rattling" / Boris Ponomarev -- Why peace movements fail / James Clotfelter -- PART THREE: THE APOCALYPTIC PREMISE: The fate of the earth / Jonathan Schell -- Apocalyptic panic is no help / Herman Kahn -- Nuclear holocaust in perspective / Michael Kinsley -- Recovery from nuclear attack / Jack C. Greene -- PART FOUR: THE CHURCHES AND NUCLEAR ARMS: Nuclear morality / George F. Will -- The case for nuclear pacifism / Bishop Roger Mahony -- The church's views on nuclear arms / Bishop John J. O'Connor -- The peace bishops / Michael Novak -- Military balance is essential to peace / Central Committee of German Catholics -- Deterrence is morally acceptable / Pope John Paul II -- The most imperative of nuclear disarmament / Four American protest bodies -- An ethic of purity vs. an ethic of responsibility / Wolfhart Pannenberg -- PART FIVE: OFFICIAL VIEWS: Peace, tyranny, and arms control / Ronald Reagan -- Strategy, deterrence, and arms conrol / Caspar W. Weinberger -- Highlights of U.S. arms control policy / Department of State -- The Soviet approach to arms control / Leonid Brezhnev -- Peace with freedom and justice / Margaret Thatcher.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 401-408.

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