Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Religious and Secular Perspectives

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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 I. 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 C. 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 II. 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 III. 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
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