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Ethics, Technology, and Nuclear War, III

The Search for a Solution to Our Present Dilemma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

Joseph I. Coffey
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The dilemma which confronts us today is that to maintain the peace we must threaten millions of men, women and children with destruction. And if our efforts to maintain the peace fail, there is an increasing possibility that these people will form the only feasible targets for our retaliatory strikes.

Although there may be those who can face such a situation with equanimity, they are few and far between.

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Research Article
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Worldview , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , April 1963 , pp. 3 - 6
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1963

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