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Reviving Nuclear Ethics: A Renewed Research Agenda for the Twenty-First Century
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Doyle, Thomas E. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | In 1976 the noted Catholic ethicist J. Bryan Hehir expressed concern about the waning sense of moral urgency over the existence of nuclear weapons with each passing year that superpower nuclear war was avoided. Acknowledging that international ethicists had justifiably turned to other global problems, such as world hunger and poverty, Hehir still worried that the relative exile [of the ethical analysis of the nuclear] issue [that] has endured in the academy ... , if not in government during the last decade, is not healthy. The price of error on this issue is still catastrophic; the chance of redress is minimal. Yet each year the genie kept in the political bottle contributes to our confidence of control and can contribute to our lack of attention. But the complexity of the issue and the costs of ignorance require attention, ethically and politically. 1 |
| Starting Page | 287 |
| Ending Page | 308 |
| Page Count | 22 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1747-7093.2010.00268.x |
| Volume Number | 24 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://mylike.store/reviving/nuclear/reviving_nuclear_ethics_a_renewed_research_agenda_for_the_twenty_first_century_essay.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7093.2010.00268.x |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
