Morality, Prudence, and Nuclear Weapons (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)

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Summary: The best treatment of the subject.
Review: This is a difficult book for a lay reader to follow, but it is the best account of the moral issues surrounding nuclear weapons. Steven Lee, a professor of philosophy at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, did an outstanding job in explaining in great detail the moral paradoxes and puzzles involving nuclear weapons. I wish this book would have been published in the early 1980s, in the height of the Cold War, the period when its author got the impulse and momentum for his project. Ironically, many of the arguments lost their political relevancy after the Cold War.