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A Sleep of Prisoners

Nuclear Deterrence: Dilemma to the Religious Conscience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

Norman K. Gottwald
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Strange how we trust the powers that ruin And not the powers that bless Christopher Fry, A Sleep of Prisoners

A key issue in modern international affairs is the policy of possessing nuclear weapons in order allegedly to prevent war. Christian conscience cannot evade the dilemma that this policy poses. It is easy to try to pull the sting from it by playing a game with words and theories.

A recent instance of a common way of pulling the sting is Bernard Brodie's “Morals and Strategy” (worldview, September 1964).

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Research Article
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Worldview , Volume 7 , Issue 11 , November 1964 , pp. 5 - 7
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1964

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