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