Monday, April 5, 2010
No Catholic argument with this, right?
Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Mon, April 05, 2010 -- 8:15 PM
ET
Obama Limits When U.S. Can Use Nuclear
Weapons
WASHINGTON -- President Obama said Monday that he
was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the
conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons, even in
self defense.
The strategy eliminates much of the ambiguity that
has deliberately existed in American nuclear policy since the opening days
of the Cold War. For the first time, the United States is explicitly
committing not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states that are in
compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, even if they attacked
the United States with biological or chemical weapons, or launched a
crippling cyberattack.
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On the "No Catholic argument with this," see John Finnis, Joseph Boyle Jr. and Germain Grisez, Nuclear Deterrence, Morality and Realism (Oxford, 1988), here.
[Cross-posted at ReligionLeftLaw.]
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