Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction:
Religious and Secular Perspectives
Edited by Sohail H. Hashmi and Steven P. Lee
Cambridge University Press, 2004
Introduction Sohail H. Hashmi and Steven P. Lee
1: Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Brief Overview
Susan B. Martin
2: The International Law Concerning Weapons of Mass Destruction
Paul C. Szasz
Part One: The Original Debate
3: Realist Perspectives on Ethical Norms and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Scott D. Sagan
4: Realism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Consequentialist Analysis
Susan B. Martin
5: Natural Law and Weapons of Mass Destruction
A. J. Coady
6: War and Indeterminacy in Natural Law Thinking
John Langan, S.J.
7: Liberalism: The Impossibility of Justifying Weapons of Mass Destruction
Henry Shue
8: A Liberal Perspective on Deterrence and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Michael Walzer
9: Christianity and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Nigel Biggar
10: Christian Apocalypticism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Martin L. Cook
Part Two: Expanding the Conversation
11: Buddhist Perspectives on Weapons of Mass Destruction
David W. Chappell
12: Buddhism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Oxymoron?
Donald K. Swearer
13: Confucianism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Julia Ching
14: “Heaven’s Mandate” and the Concept of War in Early Confucianism
Philip J. Ivanhoe
15: Hinduism and the Ethics of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Katherine K. Young
16: Hinduism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Pacifist, Prudential, and Political
Kanti Bajpai
17: Islamic Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Argument for Nonproliferation
Sohail H. Hashmi
18: “Do Not Violate the Limit”: Three Issues in Islamic Thinking on Weapons of Mass Destruction
John Kelsay
19: Judaism, War, and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Reuven Kimelman
20: Between the Bible and the Holocaust: Three Sources for Jewish Perspectives on Mass Destruction
Joseph E. David
Part Three: Critical Perspectives
21: A Feminist Ethical Perspective on Weapons of Mass Destruction
Carol Cohn and Sara Ruddick
22: A Pragmatist Feminist Approach to the Ethics of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Lucinda Joy Peach
23: Pacifism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Robert L. Holmes
24: Pacifism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Challenge of Peace
Duane L. Cady
25: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Limits of Moral Understanding: A Comparative Essay
Steven P. Lee